ABSTRACT
The Godesberg basic program of 1959 no longer had the Marxist tinge of earlier programs. It emphasized doctrinal revisionism, the end of the class struggle, a mixed economic system based on growth, internal pluralism, and religious tolerance. Reformist Social Democratic Party (SPD) leaders and publicists in the center of the SPD political spectrum tried to defuse the bias against socialism, which implicitly included democratic socialism, by launching a well-orchestrated campaign against Juso-supported Marxist theory. The reformists said that the Juso interest in classical Marxism would lead to dogmatism and inability to critically discuss non-Marxist authors. Right-wing SPD politicians were the most outspoken critics of the Juso positions. The right-wingers thought that attempted bridge-building to the Catholic community would be undermined by the party's Juso-inspired reideologization. Centrist leaders and authors also accepted Bernstein revisionism but modernized and updated it to deal with current problems.
