the guys whose platform consisted into duping people into thinking that communism meant a gradual, lawful reform into capitalism under the tsar.

Whomst? It isn't the SRs. It isn't the Mensheviks, or at least not any of the Internationalists, Martov's group (Who were very close to Bolsheviks in outlook), and even the defencists didn't think you could achieve socialism by gradual reform under the tsar.
It isn't the Cadets, they weren't socialists.