While led by August Bebel, it issued the Erfurt Program to replace the earlier Gotha Program.
This party lost nearly half its seats in an election that was called the "Hottentot election" for its party leader's denunciation of colonial policy. Following a meeting at Halle, a newspaper called Forward became the primary political organ of this party, whose "heroic period" began after it was blamed for assassination attempts by a tin worker and an academic against a monarch, prompting a series of repressive laws. This party was criticized for being too influenced by Ferdinand Lasalle at its first meeting in a tract that advocates (*) distributing labor vouchers to compensate members of society. While led by August Bebel, it issued the Erfurt Program to replace the earlier Gotha Program. Its political activities were banned by a series of 1878 laws passed under Bismarck. For 10 points, identify this largest German member of the Socialist International.
This party lost nearly half its seats in an election that was called the "Hottentot election" for its party leader's denunciation of colonial policy.
German Social Democratic Party [or GSDP; or Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; "German" is not needed after "Bismarck" is read in the question - if it is not given before this, prompt for country