You say,”Ideological purity never did anything for the socialists.” However, it dominated the Soviet Union for sixty years; it resulted in the fall of Churchill; it led to the Socialist capture of Europe; It has dominated China for now more than seventy years. It is destroying the once liberal Democrat party in the USA. Socialism cannot survive politically without demanding ideological purity, and it is nowhere near disappearing from the face of the earth.
“You say,”Ideological purity never did anything for the socialists.” However, it dominated the Soviet Union for sixty years; it resulted in the fall of Churchill; it led to the Socialist capture of Europe; It has dominated China for now more than seventy years. “
I am far from an expert, but what I have picked up seems to indicate that neither the Soviet Union before it fell nor the Communist Party of China now could be described (without joking or an attempt to deceive for political reasons) as pure communist regimes.
And the laughter that obvious attempts at ideological purity among the woke and the BLMers cause, here on the right, are I think a good guide to its political value. You think the left isn’t laughing up its sleeve at Trump’s war on the Republican Party? They LOVE it. They know this cannot help us.