And faith in the old party dogmas is just what is lacking in China today.
As a legislator, Bagert was known as a politician who did not follow structured party dogma.
While being true to the communist cause, his principles have put him at odds with party dogmas.
For two or three years following Tito's death in 1980, academics, freed from party dogma, reached out to Western intellectual traditions.
It recants official party dogma held for more than three decades.
His campaign themes, too, broke with party dogma.
Opposition members accuse the council of acting purely ideologically, following party dogma.
From Lincoln on, that was party dogma.
Each candidate has abandoned party dogma to move to the center.
Meanwhile, the Liberal democrats have criticised both their rivals saying they put party dogma ahead of common sense in education.