Talk:Liberalism in Slovenia

Slovenia High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Slovenia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Slovenia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SloveniaWikipedia:WikiProject SloveniaTemplate:WikiProject SloveniaSlovenia articles

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Slovenia to-do list:

Here are some tasks you can do (watch):

Requests: Jože Tisnikar (sl), Protestant Reformation in the Slovene Lands (sl), Metlika black (sl)
Wikify: Russia–Slovenia relations
Unreferenced: Inner Carniola, Litostroj, Pavel Golia, Predjama Castle
Cleanup: Edvard Ravnikar, Škofja Loka, Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308
Expand: Education in Slovenia
Stubs: Ajdovi žganci, Čop Street, Omar Naber, Radenska
NPOV: Gregorij Rožman, Siddharta (band)
Portal maintenance: Update News, Did you know, announcements, and suggest Selected article and picture
Help assess the quality of 63 unassessed articles
Take/Add requested photographs

Politics High‑importance

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This entry is biased to the extent that it cannot be viewed as anything but a piece of political propaganda. ZSMS and LDS never pursued genuinely liberal policies. This fact is easy to demonstrate, anti-liberal policies of the LDS have been observed and documented by Slovenian and international experts. When the LDS was in power, it indulged in censorship of the media, state intervention in the economy, it supported massive redistribution, kept increasing personal income taxes (e.g. the highest marginal tax rate on labor income reached 70 percent during the LDS rule) and prevented the central bank from operating independently.

In addition, Tone Rop and Janez Drnovšek are not liberal leaders. The above listed anti-liberal were pursued under their leadership. It would be honest to call those policies socialist or even statist. I suggest that this entry be edited by removing the paragraphs From ZSMS-Liberal Party to Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and From Slovenian Democratic League to Democratic Party. Micomrkaic 19:02, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The parties Micomrkaic wants to remove are/were internationally recognized to be part of the liberal movement. Do not forget that liberalism is heterogenous. Electionworld Talk? 20:56, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Those parties and tjeir political operatives misrepresented basic facts about their political activities in Slovenia. If they duped a part of the so called liberal movement into thinking that they are liberals, then so much worse for the so called liberal movement. Unbiased individuals should look into the policies of ZSMS and LDS, before labeling them liberal. It is not difficult to establish, that their policy record is socialist and not liberal. If you are willing to spend some time doing an objective inquiry, you will find that facts support my claims. Micomrkaic 20:44, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If Electionworld claims that there are genuinely liberal parties in Slovenia, he should prove his statements. Since he is a lawyer, he understands that the burden of proof is on the person who makes a claim. On a personal note, I am quite troubled by the fact that someone, without any doubt with the best of intentions, writes about Slovenian politics in a superficial manner. Micomrkaic 22:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]