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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher Drops A Reality Bomb On Republicans: American middle-class was created though socialism [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)former9thward
And one of the reasons he did that- created a solid safety net, like retirement and old age insurance was because? - he was scared to death by the facts that the labor movements at the same time was ready to start parties - who could beat the conservatives in their own game - and muster enough votes to get elected into Reich tag - their national assembly... Otto von Bismarck was no friend of the workers in Germany - but he did understand when to reform and when not to - and he understood by the early if he, and his Kaiser was to survive the last couple of decades - he had to change how things was been doing in Germany... After all even Karl Marx stated rather clearly that the first socialistic revolution should happened in Germany - not as it did - in Imperial Russia... In fact even Lenin was put ablast by the fact Russia had started the revolution before Germany did.... It never come to any socialistic revolution in Germany - not before world war one - not later either - even if the conservatives - in the form of one of the most extreme politic ans ever to live in the 20th century Adolf Hitler managed to do more damage to germany than socialism ever managed to do...
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