The counter-revolution has mustered strength enough to assume the offensive. With the aid of the Narodnik and Menshevik ministers the capitalists are organising an assault on liberty.
Vagueness is a bad thing.
In the case of Krusser's arrest, everything is quite clear. To hustle a man off to prison for a speech he has made at a meeting is hardly reasonable. We are not opposed to the use of revolutionary force in the interests of the nation's majority. No party should draw the line at imitating the Jacobins of 1793 on this point cited by Plekhanov. The trouble is that there are Jacobins and Jacobins.