When the Anti Socialist Law came down on the heads of the German Socialists, Most and Hasselmann had one plan, that is, to call for violence and terror; chberg, Schramm and (partly) Bernstein had another, which they began to preach to the Social Democrats, somewhat as follows: they themselves had provoked the passing of the Anti Socialist Law by being unreasonably bitter and revolutionary, and must now show that they deserve pardon by exemplary conduct.