Which is strange, since most of his financial support was from people that were well off.
All you funny guys forget is that the little bit of welfare that you have is modeled after the 90th century welfare in Germany which on the other hand resulted from the leftist movements´ influence.
Germany got it from Great Britian.GB started with Fabian socialism before Germany was a nation.
lol. Neither Germany nor GB started socialism. But it was Prussia and Austria that firstly introduced government insurances. For example, here is an info graph from 1913. It clearly shows that the German health insurance´s income from 1885 to 1913 exceeded the French one by 10 times, its expenditures by 20 times. The Brits just created a health insurance in 1912.
Prussia was a kingdom state, and not Nation of Germany.
Ideas of socialism in GB was started after the civil wars in the 17th century. Social welfare is not the same as socialism the political philosophy.