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Liberalism in Slovenia
Igor LUKŠIĆ
Jernej PIKALO
Sažetak
With the convincing victory of the Liberal Democracy of
Slovenia at Slovenian elections in 2000, the question is
posed whether this victory has something to do with liberal
traditions on Slovenian territory. The Protestant movement is
thought to be the beginning of liberal traditions on Slovenian
territory. The social circumstances for classical liberal ideas
were at that time unfavorable due to a lack of strong urban
population. Liberal traditions on Slovene territory have
always been far from the classical conceptions of liberalism.
Freedom has been mainly rooted in the national body and
not in the individual. Liberalism was mainly dealing with the
problem of national freedom and nation building, and not
with the problem of personal freedom. In terms of political
theory, Slovenian liberalism hasn't contributed a single
important book or produced an important scholar. It has
proven difficult for Slovenian liberalism to develop its own
distinctive identity under the pressure of fights for nation-
-building, under the pressure from political Catholicism and
socialism. Those were the reasons why liberalism ended up
in a daily politics as more or less national liberalism, except
in the period of the first Yugoslavia, during which it has
always taken side with the hegemonic force of a particular
time. The authors conclude that liberalism in Slovenia had
never played a hegemonic role until the beginning of the
nineties, partly because of the rule of corporatism and the
Catholic Church, and partly because of the socialist
movement in the period from 1945-1990. Despite this fact
liberalism played an important role in Slovenian politics,
especially in the second half of the 19th century and during
the process of democratization under socialism in the sixties
and eighties.
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Hrčak ID:
19736
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Datum izdavanja:
28.2.2002.
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