The speaker notes the absence in St. Petersburg of a Black-Hundred danger, fairy tales about which are being spread by the Cadets in order to induce the electors to vote for them. The local Social-Democrats are faced with the question of how to free the masses of the capital’s population from the ideological hegemony of the Cadets. Considerable sections of the urban poor, of a semi-proletarian composition, still waver between the Cadets and the Social-Democrats. The Cadets buy them with seats in the Duma in order to strengthen their influence over them. That is why it may be expedient to enter into an agreement with revolutionary-democratic parties and groups in order jointly to undermine the influence of the Cadets. But the practical necessity and possibility of an agreement, as well as its forms, should, in the speaker’s opinion, be decided by the practical workers of the local organisation.

*Proletary* No. 12, January 25, 1907.

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