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Bismarck introduced anti socialist laws in 1878, which deprived socialist organizations of the right of assembly and publication.
it gives the police the power to use the anti-socialists laws against strikers and expel. he reaffirmed it and claimed it. the ability to take the opposite sides at the same time in a quarrel.
Bismarck's Anti-Socialist campaign backfired because it actually increased support for the Socialists. Instead of quelling their movement, the repressive measures used by Bismarck, such as banning socialist publications and imprisoning socialist leaders, made the Socialists appear as victims of an authoritarian regime. As a result, more people sympathized with their cause and supported the Socialist Party in elections.
Bismarck took a leading role in social welfare reform. The reforms were a strategic political move which gained him the support of the working class. Bismarck had recognized his political vulnerability to the socialist movement which was growing rapidly. Without his social welfare reform, the support of the working class could have easily gone to the socialists.
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Bismarck wanted to head off socialism. To combat it, he devised an employer paid welfare system that provided so many "welfare" type benefits, workers in his united Germany had no reason to rebel over lack of health care and other issues that socialists wanted to install in Europe.
Early in his reign, Wilhelm II desperately wanted to be popular; he wanted to be a 'People's Kaiser'. In 1878 the Reichstag had adopted, at Bismarck's request, a law banning socialists from political campaigning, the publication of socialist books, etc. The law was renewed every four years till 1886 and up for renewal in 1890. Kaiser Wilhelm II didn't approve, Bismarck resigned and - to his astonishment - his resignation was accepted.
United Socialists was created in 1988.
Radical Socialists was created in 2004.