Democracy is the rule of the majority.
But this delay could not last long. During the several months that have passed since February 27 the will of the majority of the workers and pesants, of the overwhelming majority of the country's population, has become clear in more than a general sense. It means no more no less than imposing on the people a government which admittedly can neither come into being nor hold its ground democratically , i.e., as a result of truly free, truly popular elections. It is a face, strange as it may seem at first sight, that the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks have forgotten this perfectly simple, perfectly obvious and palpable truth. Following the elections in Petrograd and in Moscow, the convocation of the All-Russia Pesant Congress, and the Congress of Soviets, the classes and parties throughout Russia have shown what they stand for so clearly and specifically that people who have not gone mad or deliberately got themselves into a mess and simply cannot have any illusions on this score.