Holding ideals is an important part of being an activist - or a well-adapted human being, for that matter. That being said, there are certain situations when adherence to ideological purity can become an obstacle to mutual struggle. All ideals can’t (and don’t need to) be applied to every situation, and the attempt to do so can end up dividing groups or creating dysfunction within their ranks.
Sometimes lifestyle choices, ambiguities and personal differences need to be put aside in order to achieve a common aim.
We will only win through Unity.
The united front is a form of struggle that may be pursued by revolutionaries. Revolutionary socialists represented a minority in the working class, and the united front offered a method of working with large numbers of non-revolutionary workers, while simultaneously winning them to revolutionary politics.
A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists who are united by opposition to fascist or far-right groups. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal (or “bourgeois”) forces as well as socialist and communist (”working-class”) groups. Popular fronts are larger in scope than united fronts, which contain only working-class groups.
Ideology: a system of ideas or way of thinking, usually related to politics or society, or to the conduct of a class or a group, and regarded as justifying actions, especially one that is held implicitly adopted as a whole and maintained regardless of the course of events. (Canadian Oxford Dictionary)
Dogma: a belief or set of beliefs held by an authority or a group, which others are expected to accept without argument.
