Citizens! Anyone who wishes to take a conscious part in the elections to the State Duma must first of all clearly understand the fundamental difference between the three main parties. The Black Hundreds stand for pogroms and the violence of the tsarist government. The Cadets stand for the interests of the liberal landowners and capitalists. The Social-Democrats stand for the interests of the working class and all the toiling and exploited.

Anyone who wishes to consciously uphold the interests of the working class and all the toilers must know which party is really capable of defending these interests with the greatest consistency and resoluteness.

Which parties undertake to defend the interests of the working class and all the toilers?

| The party of the working class, the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, which adopts the standpoint of the class struggle of the proletariat. | The labour parties, i.e., the parties that adopt the standpoint of the small proprietor: the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries; the Labour (Popular Socialist) Party and the non-party Trudoviks. |
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| Whose interests do these parties actually defend? |
| The interests of the proletarians, whose conditions of life, depriving them of all hope of becoming masters, compel them to strive for a complete change of all the foundations of the capitalist social order. | The interests of the small proprietors, who fight against the oppression of capital but, by the very conditions of their life, strive to become masters, to consolidate their small property, to enrich themselves through trade and the hiring of workers. |
| How firm are these parties in the great world struggle of labour against capital? |
| Social-Democracy can permit no reconciliation of labour with capital. It organises the wage-workers for a ruthless struggle against capital, for the abolition of private property in the means of production and the construction of a socialist society. | The labour parties dream of abolishing the domination of capital, but owing to the conditions of life of the small master they inevitably waver between struggle against capital, jointly with the wage-workers, and the striving to reconcile the workers and the capitalists by turning all the toilers into small masters, provided with land on an equalising basis or secured with credit, and so forth. |
| What can these parties achieve if their ultimate aims are fully realised? |
| The conquest of political power by the proletariat and the transformation of capitalist production into socialised, large-scale, socialist production. | The equal division of all the land among the small masters, the small peasants, among whom, however, struggle will again inevitably break out and a division will take place between rich and poor, between workers and capitalists. |
| What freedom for the people do these parties fight for in the present revolution? |
| Complete freedom and complete power for the people, i.e., a democratic republic, the electivity of officials, the replacement of the standing army by the universal arming of the people. | Complete freedom and complete power for the people, i.e., a democratic republic, the electivity of officials, the replacement of the standing army by the universal arming of the people. |
|  | The combination of democracy, i.e., the full power of the people, with monarchy, i.e., the power of the tsar, the police, and the officials. This is just as senseless a desire and just as treacherous a policy as that of the liberal landowners, the Cadets. |
| What is the attitude of these parties to the peasants' demand for land? |
| The Social-Democrats demand the transfer of all the landlords' lands to the peasants without any compensation. | The Socialist-Revolutionaries demand the transfer of all the landlords' lands to the peasants without any compensation. |
|  | The Trudoviks demand the transfer of all the landlords' lands to the peasants, but permit compensation. To permit compensation, which will ruin the peasants, is just as treacherous a policy as that of the liberal landowners, the Cadets. |

Citizens! Vote in the elections for the candidates of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party!

Printed on November 23, 1906, as a separate leaflet, as a supplement to the newspaper *Proletary* No. 8

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