Ideological conflicts remain bridgeable while civilizational differences do not

Evidence

A Western democrat could carry on an intellectual debate with a Soviet Marxist. It would be impossible for him to do that with a Russian Orthodox nationalist. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Huntington’s own civilizational thesis and the broader idea that shared secular ideology enables dialogue across systems, unlike clashing civilizational identities. — connects to: Present reconciliation policies still rest on exclusionary civilizational premises. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 87; Catastrophic conflict can rest on visible or cultural difference. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 700
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that two mortal Cold War enemies shared more common ground with each other than either shares with its own regional tradition is a genuinely paradigm-shifting thought about the structure of conflict.