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

150V. I. LENINtowards the Right. The whole country is Left, and we aregoing Right” (Tovarishch, No. 407). Apparently, Mr. Safonovhas lucid intervals of shame and conscience ... butonly privately!On the other hand, Mr. Milyukov and his gang revealedthemselves in all, their old glory as shameless and unprincipledcareerists. In the adopted resolution they gloss overthe issue in order to fool the public at large, in the way thatthe liberal heroes of parliamentary prostitution have alwaysfooled the people. In the congress resolutions(“theses”) there is not a word about the Octobrists! This isincredible, but it is a fact. The crux of the Cadets’ congresswas the question of the Constitutional-Democrats votingwith the Octobrists. All the debates centred around thisquestion. But that is just what the art of the bourgeoispoliticians consists in—to fool the masses, to conceal theirparliamentary hocus-pocus. The “theses on tactics” adoptedby the Congress of the Constitutional-Democrats on October26 are a classical document, showing, in the first place,how the Cadets coalesce with the Octobrists, and, secondly,how resolutions designed to hoodwink the masses are writtenby the liberals. This document should be comparedwith the “parliamentary programme” of the “Union ofOctober Seventeenth”. This document should be comparedwith the “report on tactics” which Milyukov deliveredat the Congress of the Constitutional-Democrats (RechNo. 255). The following are the most important passages ofthis report:“Placed in opposition, the party, however [precisely—however!], will not play the role of an irresponsible minority,in the sense in which it itself used this term todescribe the conduct of the extreme Left in the Duma”[translated from parliamentary into simple and frank language,this means: please, Octobrist gentlemen, give us aplace, we are only an opposition in name!]. “It will notregard the Duma as a means for preparing actions outsidethe Duma, but as a supreme organ of state, possessing ashare of the supreme authority as precisely defined by law”[are not the Octobrists, who bluntly declare the revisionof the fundamental laws to be untimely, more honest?].“The party is going into the Third Duma, as into the first