What the Party of People's Freedom Wants

to society. The Party of People's Freedom believes that such extreme violence is unjust. In a democratic republic, power must belong to the entire people, not just the workers; all important changes in life must be enacted by a national (not restricted by property qualifications) State Duma or a Constituent Assembly, where elected representatives from all parties and all Russian citizens will sit. In such a Duma and such a Constituent Assembly, workers, peasants, and capitalists will strive to resolve all disputes not through violence, but through a fair agreement.

Let us now look in more detail at how the Party of People's Freedom wishes to provide the peasants with land and how it will defend the rights of workers.

How to provide the peasants with land? *)

The Party of People's Freedom believes that land should be provided to land-poor peasants, as well as to landless peasants and other persons working the land (those renting land or hired for agricultural labor).

To do this, it is necessary to have a general land reserve. Into this land reserve must go state lands, imperial family lands, cabinet lands, monastery lands, church lands, and landlord lands. Once it has been calculated how large this reserve of land is and how many people are in need of land, then from this reserve, additional allotments will be provided.

How, then, should landlord lands enter the land reserve—for free or for payment? — The Party of People's Freedom believes that no one has the right to take a person's property for free; landlord lands must go into the land reserve for payment, and this money for the land must be paid to the landlords by the state treasury. Of course, in order not to burden the state with debts, the treasury will pay for the land not at inflated prices, but at a fair (non-market) valuation.

*) For more on this, see the pamphlet "How the Party of People's Freedom proposes to provide the peasants with land."