Curiously - or maybe not - all the old ideologies are conservative because they believe in work.
"We need people who have never been tied up by the old state decrees and the old ideology," he said.
The French Communists have reverted in defeat to their old hard-line ideology.
In foreign affairs, as in so much else, he was determined to break free of the old ideologies and categories.
Surface socialism may seem more acceptable, but old ideologies lurk close behind the cheerful smiles.
His tenure coincided with the erosion of old ideologies and repressive empires.
Serbs have taken this idea to revive the old ideology of Serb-Catholic coined in the 19th century.
It went straight away back to the old socialist ideology of fifty years ago.
"People over there, really much more than here, they are less under the pressure of old ideology," he said.
The party renounce what it calls "old ideologies" as it claims none of these has a true ability to solve the problems mankind face.