What's the difference between ideologist and ideologue?
Ideologist
Definition:
(n.) One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kadyrov has vehemently denied any involvement with the killings, issuing a statement this month saying that "ideologists of terrorism" had unleashed "a massive information war against the Chechen Republic and its leadership".
(2) Today Luzhkov named Medvedev's press secretary, Natalia Timakova, and a Kremlin ideologist, Vladislav Surkov, as plotters of his downfall.
(3) The intellectual Surkov, one of the most fascinating political figures to emerge in post-Soviet Russia so far, was widely regarded as the chief ideologist of the Kremlin – and his sudden transfer to a non-political post was seen as a victory for the opposition.
(4) Management ethics, with the manager as ideologist, is seen as particularly demanding on managerial creativity.
(5) Most Russians get their news from state-run TV, which is curated by Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin's ideologist and a Putin ally.
(6) We never tried to convince paramedical ideologists, who are already heavily engaged in paramedical treatment, but it is our aim to reassure with solid arguments colleagues, who have so far been overwhelmed by irrational journalism.
(7) The Right Cause party imploded this month with the departure of its leader, oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, who accused Kremlin ideologist Vladislav Surkov of orchestrating his ousting.
(8) These arguments are exaggerated and essentially technical – except to ideologists on both the left and the right – but in allowing himself to be labelled a "deficit denier" (nasty phrase), Balls is not in the right place politically.
(9) A primary thesis of this paper is that social class, class struggle, capitalism, and imperialism are not passé categories, as most ideologists of capitalism postulate, but rather they are the most important paradigms for understanding the crises of the western system of power and its medicine.
(10) The two groups, referred to as osteopathic ideologists and allopathic ideologists, were selected on the basis of their reported first choice of medical school and internship.
(11) He spent a brief four months as head of the pro-business Right Cause party, until he was kicked out in September – something he blamed on the Kremlin's chief strategist and ideologist Vladislav Surkov.