The bulk of the criticism I receive usually runs along the lines of putting me in any number of different boxes, Secularist, Marxist, Leftist, and so on; which is just a way of dismissing my ideas without debating them.
When you are holding ideas without ever having questioned them yourself, you have no response when those ideas are questioned by anyone else. More often than not, this is the predicament of jihadis and khilafah-ists. I know, because I used to be one, and I would always be similarly outraged when anyone argued that these positions were weak both Islamically and practically, and my outrage would be similarly inarticulate. So, you respond by dismissing the discussion, because you are unequipped for it. And the fact of the matter is, you cannot be equipped for it, because yes, they are weak positions.
At a certain point, you do have to reassess. You have to filter your zeal and commitment though authentic Islamic knowledge and rational thinking. That does not mean that you abandon the concepts of Jihad or Islamic government, but you contextualize them within the proper framework of the Shari’ah and actual reality. You mature from the childhood of slogans and posturing, to the adulthood of realistic policy, analysis, and practical action.