Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

During that time he was an outspoken critic of left-wing tendencies in the German student movement and particular accused the governing Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) of being too soft on left-wing extremists .
He often spoke against the left-wing ideas in German society and accused the governing SPD of being to soft on left-wing extremists .