However, Grósz soon found himself eclipsed by a group of radical reformers who favored establishing a market economy.
Rosie Douglas appealed during his political career to the cause of the socialist radical reformers.
The main idea of the radical reformers was that government should take over or at least oversee the licensing powers of the medical corporations.
A 'radical educational reformer' he was involved in the establishment of University College School.
But the radical reformers are no better.
His antipathy to slavery, based on moral and economic grounds, placed him from the first among the mildly radical reformers.
One Western diplomat said some of China's more radical reformers were less congratulatory.
He became the leader for a group of radical reformers who after him was called Dulcinians.
"Gorbachev has by and large operated in the middle between the more radical reformers and the conservatives," he said.
Despite this connection to radical reformers who were killed for their efforts, Laelius's own political significance is slight.