LIBERALIZAM U SLOVENIJI
LIBERALISM IN SLOVENIA

Summary/Abstract: 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.

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