Nor is this party for the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat," but for the Dictatorship of the active majority. But in agrarian countries, such as Russia, the foundation of the social revolution must be a union of the active peasantry and the city proletariat, not necessarily in an arithmetic equality on the part of the peasant majority, but in the form of participation with equal rights of these two main classes.
In contradistinction to the bolshevik party the social-revolutionaries of the left stand on a federalist basis. The whole social structure of the transition period must be built on the principles of federalism, political as well as economic. The party is a soviet party and demands that the elections to the Soviets, which constitute the political axis of the period of transition, only take place on the condition of free elections for the working masses, and that in the activities of the councils the most far-reaching principles of democracy be preserved ; otherwise, the whole council or soviet system is, in their opinion, turned into a mockery of the will of the workers, as at present, and forces the working masses, in a sense of disillusionment, to again long for the universal and free franchise and all the other formal principles of bourgeois democracy. The function of the councils or Soviets shall only be to serve as an extension structure of socialist society, politically and in a general cultural aspect, and for that reason all branches of labor and all groups of workers must be represented in them. The economic function, the production and distribution of goods, should rest exclusively in the hands of producers and consumers,