drove the masses, the poor, the workers, minorities, and women to fight against those injustices and for their rights, including the right to vote. Those who were out in the cold economically, abused by big capitalists who cared only about profits, knew that they had to increase their power at the ballot box, because influencing political decisions was at the root of influencing social and economic decisions. Left to their own devices, free from the reforming pressure of the voters and sympathetic politicians, industrial capitalists would simply continue to exploit the poor and the weak for financial gain. Bismarck joined Mill in proclaiming the need for government protection of the poor and weak in the workplace as well as in society in general. Bismarck argued for a guaranteed annual income, while Lloyd George in England argued for old-age pensions and national insurance. All of these suggestions recognized and sought to remedy injustices in an economic system which inevitably favored the rich and powerful and exploited the poor and weak. Classical li
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