Bismarck's conservative ideology came about after the Germans won the war against Austria. He believed any further attempts to engage in war would make Germans lose terribly. Bismarck's ideologies mainly leaned on the balance of power principle which aimed at making ordinary Germans loyal to the state and emperor. First, he supported peace. Bismarck believed in having a peaceful state other than continuing the war with German’s neighbors. However, he remained alone in this opinion. “I declared it to be my conviction that peace must be concluded on the Austrian terms, but remained alone in my opinion; the king supported the military majority” (Robinson, 1906 p.584). Next, he decided on how to harness the people to remain loyal to the king and at the same time ensuring economic growth of German. Bismarck believed in energetic national policy. The national policy aimed at making people develop patriotism and spur economic agenda of the nation. The balance of power comes in when he also feared press criticism in his endeavors as a leader “….our task was the establishment or foundation of German national unity under the leadership of the king of Prussia” (Robinson, 1906 p.589). Bismarck feared criticism from taking a conservative ideology while the emperor and his army were liberal minded. Conservative ideology was unwelcome. The emperor felt Bismarck was supporting their enemy state. Lastly, Bismarck developed strong democratic ties with German. It is noted that he introduced universal male suffrage in German (Moore & Vaudagna, 2003). The right to vote introduced by Bismarck marked by the beginning of a unified Germany. Bismarck ideology led to the introduction of sound legal justice systems where all the people would face equality before the law of the land. Bismarck memoirs described possible solutions he tailored towards achieving peace, stabilizing the Germans economy, legal systems and defying war between German and France.
References
Moore, R. L. & Vaudagna, M. (2003). The American century in Europe . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
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Robinson, J. H. ed. (1906). Readings in European history (pp. 583-590). Boston: Ginn.
