German industrialization made radical reform feel less urgent, easing Bismarck’s path.

Evidence

Bismarck, as we know, was successful, but not on the basis of sheer energy or diplomatic acumen. The economic prosperity, between 1850 and 1871, of an industrializing Germany had made radical (that is liberal) reform less urgent, while the ubiquitous international machinations and the persistent hostility of Napoleon III to German unity underscored the logic of nationalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 328

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• German economic prosperity made radical reform seem less urgent (similarity 0.96)
• German prosperity and external threats made liberal reform seem less urgent (similarity 0.92)
• Bismarck weaponized nationalism by separating it from its liberal grounding (similarity 0.86)
• Bismarck detached German nationalism from its liberal revolutionary roots. (similarity 0.86)
• Bismarck severed German nationalism from its liberal-reformist origins (similarity 0.86)
• Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to nationalist ideological dynamics (similarity 0.81)
• German industrialization began in the 1830s yet remained overwhelmingly agricultural through mid-century. (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism’s economism forced the conclusion that nationalism was a backward, diversionary ideology. (similarity 0.78)
• Marxian economism led Marxists to dismiss nationalism as backward ideology. (similarity 0.78)