Such an organization can be the work of Social-Democracy only. No other party is able to create it. No other party can give the masses a revolutionary slogan, as no one outside our Party has freed himself from all considerations not pertaining to the interests of the revolution. No other party, but Social-Democracy, is able to organize the action of the masses, as no one but our Party is closely connected with the masses.
Our Party has committed many errors, blunders, almost crimes. It wavered, evaded, hesitated, it showed inertia and lack of pluck. At times it hampered the revolutionary movement.
_However, there is no revolutionary party but the Social-Democratic Party!_
Our organizations are imperfect. Our connections with the masses are insufficient. Our technique is primitive.
_Yet, there is no party connected with the masses but the Social-Democratic Party!_
At the head of the Revolution is the Proletariat. At the head of the Proletariat is Social-Democracy!
Let us exert all our power, comrades! Let us put all our energy and all our passion into this. Let us not forget for a moment the great responsibility vested in our Party: a responsibility before the Russian Revolution and in the sight of International Socialism.
The proletariat of the entire world looks to us with expectation. Broad vistas are being opened for humanity by a victorious Russian revolution. Comrades, let us do our duty!
Let us close our ranks, comrades! Let us unite, and unite the masses! Let us prepare, and prepare the masses for the day of decisive actions! Let us overlook nothing. Let us leave no power unused for the Cause.
Brave, honest, harmoniously united, we shall march forward, linked by unbreakable bonds, brothers in the Revolution!
_Osvoboshdenie_ (_Emancipation_) was the name of a liberal magazine published in Stuttgart, Germany, and smuggled into Russia to be distributed among the Zemstvo-liberals and other progressive elements grouped about the Zemstvo-organization. The _Osvoboshdenie_ advocated a constitutional monarchy; it was, however, opposed to revolutionary methods.
_Peter Struve_, first a Socialist, then a Liberal, was the editor of the _Osvoboshdenie_. Struve is an economist and one of the leading liberal journalists in Russia.
