Interview with dr. Peter Klepec in Mladina

Interview with dr. Peter Klepec in Mladina: "Accusing Golob of being an authoritarian politician is ridiculous. The propaganda constantly shows him as an authoritarian in disguise and Tina's slipper."

Peter Klepec is not only a mythological hero, he is also a philosopher. He works as Principal Research Associate and Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and lecturing at the Postgraduate School there. In 1998, he completed his doctorate under Slavoj Žižek, and his high school teacher was Slavko Gaber. Peter Klepec makes no secret of the fact that he is a leftist, but at the same time he wonders what the left is and why it is important in this crazy world. Let us ask ourselves another question: would this world gone mad be a better place if the left had more power as a political force? And of course, why?

"Most voters do not expect reforms and breakthroughs from politics, they do not expect strategies and plans, they expect to be able to live normally in this world gone mad."

"The despair, especially among the younger generation, who are very aware but disempowered and rightly frustrated, not least for other reasons, is palpable. Despair can be a catalyst for violence, and we have seen this story before in the 1970s."

"The left is fighting for things that matter to all of us in the long term. That is true of the current government anyway. It's right that we look under its fingers and criticise it. But this government is not as incompetent as they want to portray it."

"Precisely because the world has gone mad, because it will not change for the better on its own, because it seems to be developing for the worse, we have to change it radically. We still have to fight for a different world."