>And his point is worth taking seriously, though few people want to
>do so, fixating either on his choice of words or his celebrity instead.
And suggestions he is removed from politics are very silly. How many of his critics have run for president?
>In the late 1980s, he came to public attention as a columnist for
>the alternative youth magazine Mladina, which assumed a critical
>stance towards the Titoist regime, criticizing several aspects of
>Yugoslav politics, especially the militarization of society. i ek
>was member of the Communist Party of Slovenia until October 1988,
>when he quit in protest against the JBTZ-trial together with 32
>other Slovenian public intellectuals.[12] Between 1988 and 1990, he
>was actively involved in several political and civil society
>movements which fought for the democratization of Slovenia, most
>notably the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights.[13] In the
>first free elections in 1990, he ran as candidate for Presidency of
>the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution abolished in the
>constitution of 1991) for the Liberal Democratic Party. In a 2008
>interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, he described himself
>as a "communist in a qualified sense," and in another appearance in
>October 2009 he described himself as a "radical leftist".[3][4]