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| | Bebel, August. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | In 1872, Bebel and Liebknecht, tried on charges of treason, were sentenced to two years imprisonment, but this only solidified Bebels control over the Social Democrats, and he was reelected to the Reichstag. |
 | | A moderate Marxist, he opposed either violent retaliation against repression or the gradualist, evolutionary socialism of Eduard Bernstein, condemning all deviation (right and left) at the Dresden Congress of 1903. |
 | | By 1912 the Social Democrats, embodied by Bebel, were the largest German political party. |
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