Ljubo Sirc
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Ljubo Sirc Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes )(now Slovenia | |
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| Died | 1 December 2016 (aged 96) |
| Occupation | Economist |
Ljubo Sirc
Life and work
Sirc was born in
After the
After his release, he escaped to Italy with the help of former
In 1962, Sirc was among the co-founders of the opposition platform Democratic Alternative, together with a group of
Activity in post-communist Slovenia
After the fall of the communist regime in Slovenia, Sirc was active in Slovenian public life, writing articles, giving interviews, and commenting on political developments and economic issues. In 1990 and 1991, his opposition to the independence of Slovenia caused some controversy. Sirc supported a unified and democratic Yugoslavia and, although he admitted this solution was not feasible at the time, he refused to uphold the idea of an independent Slovenia until the outbreak of the Ten-Day War. He then endorsed Slovenia's decision to break from the Yugoslav Federation.
In 1992, he ran for President of Slovenia with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDS), but received less than 2% of the vote. He later claimed that he had been fooled into accepting the candidacy: he believed, according to his account, that the party had really accepted an economically and politically liberal program, whereas in reality, he claimed, it remained strongly linked to the former communist establishment. In fact, as subsequent polls showed, the great majority of the Liberal Democratic Party's voters voted for Milan Kučan in the presidential elections.
Sirc later sharply criticised both
In 2004, he was among the co-founders of the
In his later years, Sirc lived in Glasgow's West End and regularly visited his homeland.
Books
- Between Hitler and Tito (autobiography, 1989)
- Economic Devolution in Eastern Europe (1969)
- The Yugoslav Economy Under Self-Management (1979)
- What Must Gorbachev Do? (1989)
- Political Morality in Yugoslavia (1996)
See also
- Boris Furlan
- Angela Vode
- Titoism
- Communist Party of Yugoslavia
- Liberalism in Slovenia
- Mitja Ribičič
- Pavle Gantar
References
- ^ Umrl je ekonomist in pravnik Ljubo Sirc. 2016. Siol.net (1 December).
- ^ Petan, Zarko. "Aphorisms by Zarko Petan Presented by Ljubo Sirc". prah.net. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ "Sirc, član SDS". www.demokracija.si. Archived from the original on 15 February 2011.
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