That invariably puts them outside of the revolutionary process. For us it's the other way around. Our ideology strengthens and advances the program and political tasks around which we are united. Other aspects of our thinking are akin to ideology and strengthen our ideology but are distinct from it. For example, ideology is not the equivalent of theory.
Theory is a group of propositions that are used to explain phenomena.
Nor is ideology the same as philosophy. Philosophy covers the study of the processes governing thought and the principles and laws that regulate the universe and underlie all knowledge. For the revolutionary, ideology is also more than a body of doctrine. Doctrine is a particular principle or set of principles advocated or taught by a movement or political body. Ideology both starts from and reinforces morality.