ABSTRACT
Once in federal and regional parliaments, the young anti-revisionists no longer pushed their 'Maoism Lite'. The more 'realist' or those with social democratic family backgrounds joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), conventionally as Young Socialists. The final effects of Gorbachev's perestroika turned out to be much different from what some dreamers among the traditional Western left had hoped for. University curricula covered substantially expanded areas and aspects in the traditional disciplines; new fields of research and even new disciplines were introduced. The 'Third Way' was originally a term used by reform-minded Marxist economists in the sixties and seventies, meaning there could and should be an alternative to both capitalism and socialism. The global capital has triumphed and the only sensible response from government is to accept the fact and to do what can be done to equip people to be more "competitive" players in its game.
