The great irony of the past week is that I believe there is ideological unity in our party.
The modern state rightly moves away from traditional religion as its source of ideological unity, in favour of post-religious humanism (equality, rights).
Yet his primary interest in dialectic was as a tool for exposing the "fallacies" of rival schools, and he bitterly lamented the need for dialectic in the absence of a centralized political authority that could impose ideological unity from above.
Even as it happened, the Glorious Revolution clearly marked the beginning of a worldwide appreciation of the legitimacy of groups that do not share the "ideological unity" demanded by a strong king.
Stunningly, the paper is still being peddled at every demonstration to young cyber-activists for whom the very concept of a newspaper is almost as outdated as the notion of ideological unity as a basis for action.
That commentary was excerpted and translated by the official Xinhua news agency, which described its call "to maintain a high level of ideological unity with the CPC Central Committee with Hu as the general secretary, and hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics".
To the extent that political parties can maintain ideological unity and aren't split by crosscutting issues (racial issues until the 1970s, or rich-person political patronage now), this structure also bakes the Republican-style "deny the president any legislative achievements" strategy into the cake.
On April 6th the authorities in Beijing shut down some pro-left websites that had been publishing articles supporting him.In a commentary on the Bo case, couched in old-time Leninist rhetoric, the party's main mouthpiece, the People's Daily, called on citizens to maintain a "high level of ideological unity" with the party and with Mr Hu.
Next, the DPJ would have to clarify its policy platform (necessarily a fraught process, given its faction-ridden internal structure and lack of ideological unity) and assert control over a civil service that has become used to working with the LDP.
Polisario brands thus represent a rejection of traditional tribal symbols, reinforcing the ideological unity of the Sahrawi people beyond tribes and draw upon colonial symbols of state ownership.
It didn't achieve anything like ideological unity until 1938.
