When you follow an ideology, that ideology was created by thought which is always old. Therefore the ideology is never new; it is something dead you have resurrected, pulled out of ashes and put as an ideal, a future to be attained. It is dead stuff. In India, they have preached non-violence for decades, but they are as violent as ever before. So ideologies are the most absurd escape from the fact of violence. To face violence and go beyond it is important, not escape from it.