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

BUT WHO ARE THE JUDGES?157individualist mud” (p. 91 of the same article), and embarksupon “the path of encouraging individualist and egoistictendencies among the masses” (ibid., p. 93).Clear enough, it would seem? The overwhelming majorityof peasant deputies displayed bourgeois individualism.The S.R.’s first address to the peasant electors of all Russiastrikingly confirmed the theory of the Social-Democratsby virtually converting the S.R.’s into the extreme Leftwing of the petty-bourgeois democrats.But, perhaps the S.R.’s, after the Popular Socialistshad separated from them and won the Trudovik group overto their programme, definitely dissociated themselves fromthem? They did not. The elections to the Second Duma inSt. Petersburg proved the reverse. Blocs with the Cadetswere then the greatest manifestation of socialist opportunism.The Black-Hundred danger was a fiction coveringup the policy of truckling to the liberals. The Cadet pressrevealed this very clearly by stressing the “moderation” ofthe Mensheviks and Popular Socialists. How did the S.R.’sbehave? Our “revolutionaries” formed a bloc with the PopularSocialists and the Trudoviks; the terms of this blocwere concealed from the public. Our revolutionaries trailedafter the Cadets just like the Mensheviks. The S.R. spokesmenproposed a bloc to the Cadets (the meeting of January18, 1907. See N. Lenin’s pamphlet When You Hear theJudgement of a Fool ... , St. Petersburg, January 15, 1907,*in which it is established that the S.R.’s behaved in a politicallydishonest manner in the question of agreementsby negotiating simultaneously with the Social-Democrats,who had declared war on the Cadets on January 7, 1907,and with the Cadets). The S.R.’s found themselves inthe Left bloc against their will, owing to the Cadets’ refusal.Thus, after a complete break with the Popular Socialiststhe S.R.’s in actual fact pursued the policy of thePopular Socialists and Mensheviks, i.e., the opportunists.Their “advantage” consists in concealing from the publicthe motives of this policy and the currents within theirparty.* See present edition, Vol. 11, pp. 456-74.—Ed.