Ideals vs Pragmatism

Ideas are what man is best capable of. His idealism pristine pure in its conception must be tested in real time and place with others. Me vs them. The ideals of others are not mine. My ideal as I conceived speak for me. No matter the ideas are somewhat rehashed to fit me. Just the same I am an entire world itself with a soul at its center. I cannot be otherwise.

But can my ideal hold its integrity for long pure? Unfortunately history of mankind doesn’t show from lives of anyone,- saint, sinner wise or fool included, as ever having succeeded. Pragmatism is what makes expediency come to the fore and make every moral value slip away unnoticed and unlamented.
Jesus came out of obscurity preaching ideas that sound very much that Communism seemed to offer: A Worker’s Paradise. So would Communism promise one.
Time presents opportunities with events at work, sometimes favorable for one and contrary. Circumstances are there always. Those who are totally committed to 'succeed' shall always find one point of time to act out. But is it the right one? Pragmatism got Lenin a closed train with the help of the Imperial Germany to persuade Russia to withdraw from the war. His pragmatism helped Bolshevik partisans to get controls over the country when all their sinews and nerves were strained to war effort.
Communism as a theory when practised by Lenin and Stalin will be so different. Or take Christianity for example. Did not the approach by Peter and Paul differ? The simple reason for their difference was the existence of Orthodox Jewish practices which both were well familiar with. Paul as a naturalized Roman citizen was sure his approach was more pragmatic in taking Christianity to far corners of the Empire. Whereas Peter claiming to the mantle of Christ chose another course. Ideals of any man must be tested against what has gone before. Thus even after the idea of Worker’s Paradise through Communism came a cropper, in Latin countries it will morph into Liberation Theology.The Church were not members of the Party. Even so it was easy for the Church to latch onto the Scriptures and some words of Jesus to give Communism a new change of clothes.
None of us is exempt from the slow contagion of ‘pragmatism’ somewhat a necessary compromise for anyone who wants to succeed. What success when by compromise soul of an idea has been killed? This is human condition. Why would Lenin work himself to death literally had he known Stalin would decimate the Party and set up a personality cult and change entire outlook of Communism within a decade?
benny