What the Party of People's Freedom Wants

How does the Party of People's Freedom differ from other parties?

The Party of People's Freedom differs from other parties in that it cares for all citizens, not for one particular class of the people—for example, not only for workers or peasants—and at the same time, it cares for the honor and prosperity of the entire Russian State. The Social Democratic Party defends primarily the interests of the workers; it takes little interest in the needs of other citizens and does not think at all about the Russian State as a whole. If parties arise that are further to the right than the Party of People's Freedom, they might defend the power and integrity of the state in their own way, but they would likely be concerned above all with the interests of large landowners and factory owners, as did the parties in Russia that relied on Stolypin Pyotr Stolypin, a statesman who served as Prime Minister under Nicholas II, who strove even among the peasantry to single out the wealthiest and draw them to his side. The Party of People's Freedom forgets no one and strives to respect the interests and rights of all, as well as the interests of the state as a whole *).

Let us now look at how the Party of People's Freedom is similar to the socialists, and how it differs from them.

Like the Party of People's Freedom, the socialists (Social Democrats, Socialist Revolutionaries, etc.) now want to create a democratic republic in Russia immediately. This means there is no difference between the Party of People's Freedom and the socialists on this point. But the socialists also want to create a socialist republic in the future (perhaps many years from now). To better understand what a socialist republic is, let us examine what kind of order of national

*) In other words, the Party of People's Freedom has a non-class character, neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but all-national.