By: Dr Stane Granda
The predictions are coming true. The election campaign is taking on forms and content that we once could hardly imagine.
Really? Actually, no. What the communists/socialists and Golob’s people are now doing publicly and loudly, they used to do more subtly, and above all covertly. Probably also more successfully. I remember how the ZZB trios went from house to house intimidating people. Some did the same in bars and everywhere people gathered. The crudeness and roughness of the outbursts, in which the prime minister leads, radiate a social and personal psychopathology that confirms the view of how exceptional the situation is. It is tragic, potentially even fatal, if global changes in Slovenian society do not occur. Social and economic changes. Slovenia’s future is burning! It is in the hands of people who should never have been allowed anywhere near it. The full depth of the crisis of the “new faces” is coming to light. Kučan not only no longer controls it, he is becoming its main fuel. Only now is it becoming clear what Zdenko Roter meant to them, he thought in his place. The emperor is not naked; the emperor is empty. Like Tito’s statue in Velenje, whose beheading symbolically revealed this.
Kučan’s complete exposure shows his desire to witness the destruction of the man who deprived him of power and of the much‑desired international career he hoped would follow Tito’s foreign‑policy model. In this, he and Milošević were rivals. He never understood that he was too small for such ambitions, since he never rose above the mentality of a secret‑police operative. A top‑level one, but still only an operative. Let us recall how shamefully, for Slovenia as an independent state, he received Jörg Haider in Ljubljana as a provincial governor. If he did not succeed at home, there is even less chance he will succeed abroad.
The governing coalition, together with the uncles in the background, has stripped itself bare. A capable opposition can calmly and systematically slice it like the worst mortadella. It has neither smell nor taste and stinks because it has decomposed under the sun of false promises and complete failures in every field. The increase in poverty, the collapse of the middle class, the breakdown of healthcare, the pension system, the uncertain future of those in need – who are worse off than ever, with long waiting lines created here as well – and above all the incredible deepening of social division demand change and immediate action. A repair of conditions that are worse than after the devastating floods at the start of this coalition’s term. Now we see that they were actually announcing the possibility of Slovenia’s complete sinking.
What next? The opposition must unify around a hierarchy of problems. The position of entrepreneurship is not the top priority. NSi’s view that the key problem is the economy is vulgar Marxism. The economic base does not determine the social superstructure. The human mind, the human being, is the guiding force of society, not the economy. A moral renewal is needed. Golob’s characteristic public lying must not gain permanent legitimacy in Slovenian society. Democracy is most endangered, as the ruling authorities do not even hide their totalitarianism. Political conditions must be addressed. Concepts and the fundamental principles of Slovenian society must be clarified and defined. In Slovenia, this is not a struggle between the right and the left, but between democracy and neo‑totalitarianism. We must free ourselves from the “white guard” syndrome, the label for the anti‑communist militia imposed by the communists. How absurd it is to hear that Rupel, Bavčar… even Janša are right‑wingers. They are democrats; independence was a victory of democracy, not of the right. Many young people, because of schooling, do not want to be right‑wing, but they are gladly and proudly democrats. The current government was not led by a democratic left, but by poorly disguised Bolsheviks of the Stalinist type. They call us fascists, while we grant them the status of a parliamentary left. The next elections are a battle between true democracy and an anti‑democratic totalitarian left.
Independence must be completed. Communist Bolshevism or Stalinism, which was the harshest in Yugoslavia when in Slovenia, must be sent to the dustbin of history once and for all. We judge Rupnik’s collaboration, yet we honour those who attacked us with fire and sword under the symbols of socialist Yugoslavia and sought to destroy us as Slovenes. Enough half‑measures. Physical and political lustration of communism is not possible, but we can give totalitarianisms the place they deserve through legal and constitutional condemnation. We must finally establish morality that is eternal and definitive.