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It was implemented by Bismarck but it was an explicit plan to outmaneuver the left wing by taking a popular part of their platform, which I've seen translated as "stealing socialism's thunder". Good details from a US-left perspective here

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/otto-von-bismarck-germany-soc...

and from a US-centerish perspective here

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bismarck-tried-end-so...