Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Political career===
In the late 1980s, Žižek came to public attention as a columnist for the alternative youth magazine ''[[Mladina]]'', which was critical of Tito's policies, Yugoslav politics, especially the [[militarization]] of society. He was a member of the [[League of Communists of Slovenia]] until October 1988, when he quit in protest against the [[JBTZ trial]] together with 32 other Slovenian intellectuals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/1?id=103 |title=Skupinski protestni izstop iz ZKS |date=28 October 1998 |publisher=Slovenska Pomlad |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003180147/http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/1?id=103 |archive-date=3 October 2011 |language=sl }}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/1?id=31&aofs=3 |title=Odbor za varstvo človekovih pravic |date=3 June 1998 |website=Slovenska Pomlad |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003180306/http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/1?id=31&aofs=3 |archive-date=3 October 2011 |language=sl }}</ref> In the [[1990 Slovenian presidential election|first free elections]] in 1990, he ran as the [[Liberal Democracy of Slovenia|Liberal Democratic Party]]'s candidate for the former four-person collective presidency of Slovenia.<ref name="Britannica"/>

Žižek is a member of the [[Democracy in Europe Movement 2025]] (DiEM25) founded in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Posts Tagged: slavoj zizek {{!}} DiEM25 |url=https://diem25.org/tag/slavoj-zizek/ |access-date=8 February 2024 }}</ref>