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In spite of the anti-Socialist Laws of 1878, the socialist movement was not fatally weakened and would continue to expand throughout the decade, its moderate forces content to work through parliamentary channels. In an effort to stem the growth of this movement, Bismarck offered an olive branch to German workers in the form of social welfare legislation, which was announced by Wilhelm I in the Royal Proclamation of November 17, 1881.
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Z ‘On the new idol’. Zarathustra’s speeches in Part One were given in a city called ‘The Colourful Cow’, which displays the same diversity belonging to the modern democratic city. It is also worth noting that Socrates referred to democracy as the most ‘colourful’ of regimes because it is home to all sorts of human beings and provides the most natural setting for the philosopher seeking initiates or companions (Plato, Republic 557c-d, 558a-b). See Laurence Lampert, Nietzsche’s Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra(New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 33.
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Cameron, F., Dombowsky, D. (2008). The Campaign against Morality, 1881–1885. In: Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371668_5
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