caught in the snare of constitutional illusions, of "faith" in the calling of the Constituent Assembly, of waiting for the Congress of Soviets, &c., … they will be nothing but miserable traitors to the cause of the working-class.
For internationalism does not consist in phrases, in declarations of solidarity or in resolutions, but in action.
For to allow the peasant rebellion to be crushed by a government that the Dielo Naroda itself compares to that of Stolypine, is to lose the whole revolution, for ever and beyond recall. The growing anarchy and indifference to the masses is complained of. How can the masses not be indifferent to the elections when the peasant class is reduced to rebellion, and when the "Revolutionary Democracy" patiently puts up with the repression of this rebellion by armed force?
To allow the peasant revolt to be crushed at such a time is to allow the elections for the Constituent Assembly to be falsified still more shamefully than the "Democratic Conference" and the "Pre-Parliament " were falsified.
The crisis is approaching its climax. The whole future of the Russian Revolution is at stake. The whole future of the international socialist working class revolution is at stake.
The crisis approaches …
