We cannot imagine democracy, not even proletarian democracy, without representative institutions, but we can and must think of democracy without parliamentarism, if criticism of bourgeois society is not mere empty words for us, if the desire to overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie is our serious and sincere desire, and not a mere 'election' cry for catching workers' votes, as it is with the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, the Scheidemanns, the Legiens, the Sembats and the Vanderveldes.