 Such actions against 'private' individuals were unacceptable to the orthodox SRs, who denounced them as 'lynch justice'.Meanwhile, on the right, the Popular Socialists who defected from the PSR at the same time as the Maximalists, rejected any terrorism.The Maximalists were often compared to anarchists, with whom they shared a fondness for 'propaganda by the deed' and 'direct action', but they themselves rejected this comparison.