The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.
Raymond GeussThe idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.
Raymond GeussOne way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.
Raymond GeussHumans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.
Raymond Geuss