But government repression, intense as it was, only disrupted the IWA leftists; it was left for conservative
factionalists to exploit these disruptions and use them as an opportunity to oust the Communists.
In this way, Hayward risks misleading readers about the real reasons for the Berns-Jaffa feud, which not only embarrassed many of their friends but also encouraged an unjustified image of Straussians as
factionalists, which only added fuel to the fires of Strauss's typically ill-informed and often highly partisan critics.
Yet, the lack of even a misgoverning head of the state created a misbalance, which would haunt the
factionalists until their decimation to a single ruler.
A primary purpose of the unity government is to check these
factionalists.
When a Politburo or a Standing Committee member was removed between the party congresses,
factionalists claimed victory.
It's a big test for Labor activists to become more socially inclusive and for Labor
factionalists to see beyond their own high-paid hoped-for careers (a persistent characteristic of many rightist labour leaders, the latest being Paul Howes) and build a new ideological framework.
"Today, a report I saw has all the hallmarks of rogue elements in the employ of the
factionalists within our leadership.
These rules are not the norms and values stressed by structural
factionalists, but they are the deeply embedded and embodied generative dispositions that organise social practices.
Pastors have been verbally attacked by liturgy
factionalists in their parish for not immediately putting into practice the new rules.
By blaming the murder on former intraparty
factionalists, he could justify the total mobilization that he deemed essential for totalitarian socialism to survive.
In subsequent years, ex-leftist
factionalists, political commentators, and cold war-era historians dismissed "Mother" Bloor as an empty symbol, an unimportant "woman organizer," and an easily manipulated, politically unsophisticated woman.
What did the aristocratic Vicomtesse de Fars Fausselandry, who hated the Revolution and in whose heart "the voice of revenge makes itself heard so imperiously," have in common with the bourgeoise Madame Roland, who could distinguish "true patriots" committed to the cause of liberty from "
factionalists" who impeded the revolutionary cause?
