Eep - think we're at cross-purposes here! I completely agree with you, and I'd never call Doyle "A Socialist", I was originally using the word to mean But I think Doyle has more of an tendency towards "socialist" ideals than towards "right-wing" ideals.
Sorry, if I put words into your mouth! And yes, I'd say he was left-leaning - in the broadest sense of the word - and it's more the statist element to socialism which I'd think he'd have little truck with. And in some ways they could both be seen as apolitical animals - Doyle in his free spirt sense, and Bodie in the sense that he's ex-army and the army is supposed to be apolitical, following the orders of their political masters whoever they may be and so, he follows Cowley's order fairly unquestioningly, too. And membership of Ci5: well, wasn't it claimed somewhere that it's 'above the law', so maybe it's above the state? Dunno.
I always think of ideology more as the study of ideas and doctrines than ideals!
....Bugger, that'll teach me to post during first coffee - I was thinking of Doyle's ideal-ism of course... *headdesk*
Phew, that's a relief! You really had me worried there for a minute, trying to pick my way through the intellectual subtley of this new word!.
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Re: Major Spoiler alert
Date: 2007-07-22 01:16 pm (UTC)Sorry, if I put words into your mouth! And yes, I'd say he was left-leaning - in the broadest sense of the word - and it's more the statist element to socialism which I'd think he'd have little truck with. And in some ways they could both be seen as apolitical animals - Doyle in his free spirt sense, and Bodie in the sense that he's ex-army and the army is supposed to be apolitical, following the orders of their political masters whoever they may be and so, he follows Cowley's order fairly unquestioningly, too. And membership of Ci5: well, wasn't it claimed somewhere that it's 'above the law', so maybe it's above the state? Dunno.
I always think of ideology more as the study of ideas and doctrines than ideals!
....Bugger, that'll teach me to post during first coffee - I was thinking of Doyle's ideal-ism of course... *headdesk*
Phew, that's a relief! You really had me worried there for a minute, trying to pick my way through the intellectual subtley of this new word!.