Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

THE FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.145policy of the Cadets. Direct or indirect support for theCadets by the Social-Democrats—whether in the form of anInformation Bureau with the participation of the Cadetsor by adapting our actions to their policy, etc.—wouldnow directly harm the cause of class education of the massof the workers and the cause of the revolution;(3) while upholding their socialist aims and criticisingall the bourgeois parties from this standpoint, the Social-Democrats, in their propaganda, should give prominence tothe task of making it clear to the broad masses that theThird Duma fails completely to meet the interests and demandsof the people, and in this connection conductwidespread and vigorous propaganda for the idea of a constituentassembly based on universal, direct, and equalsuffrage by secret ballot;(4) one of the principal tasks of Social-Democracy in theThird Duma is to expose the class nature of the government’sand the liberals’ proposals and to systematicallyoppose to them the demands of the Social-Democratic minimumprogramme without any whittling-down, with specialattention to questions affecting the economic interestsof the broad masses (the labour and agrarian questions, thebudget, etc.)—the more so as the composition of the ThirdDuma promises exceptionally abundant material for thepropaganda activities of Social-Democrats;(5) the Social-Democratic group should take special carethat no outward coincidence between Social-Democraticvoting and the voting of the Black-Hundred-Octobrist orOctobrist-Cadet blocs should be used in the sense of supportingone bloc or the other;(6) the Social-Democrats in the Duma should introduceBills and use their right to make interpellations, for whichpurpose they should co-operate with other groups to theleft of the Cadets without in any way retreating from theprogramme and tactics of Social-Democracy and withoutentering into any kind of blocs. The Social-Democraticgroup should immediately propose to the Left deputies ofthe Duma the formation of an Information Bureau whichwould not bind its participants but would enable the workers’deputies to exert systematic influence upon democraticelements in the spirit of Social-Democratic policy;