ideals are integral in establishing organizing principles. what's your reference point otherwise?

there has to be a world that you seek to build, short term and long term. now,i'm not advocating total ignoring practicality (that would be silly) but to elevate it only allows you to work on the turf predefined by the system you seek to change.

you need both.

sure. there's idealism in the ten point program but for all it's idealism of the points, the party fought to make them real. so criticism of the idealism is only relevent, imo, when there's no work put in to employ those changes.