Innis

Bismarck did not pretend his intentions were charitable. When he introduced compulsory insurance for accident and health and disability and pensions in the 1880s he called it state socialism and named the advantage plainly: seven hundred thousand pensioners drawing from the state would develop dependency and loyalty to the regime. This was the plan. Not the unintended consequence. Not the thing critics alleged. The plan, stated aloud by the man who made it, in the room where he made it. Most political programs are less honest about what they are.