The People's Socialist Party (Serbo-Croatian: ''Narodno-socijalistička stranka'', Slovenian: ''Narodno-socialistična stranka'') was a
Yugoslav political party in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 unt ...
. It was formed through a split from the
Yugoslav Democratic Party
The Yugoslav Democratic Party, ''State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats'' and Democratic Party, also known as the Democratic Union was the name of a series of liberal political parties that existed in succession in the State of S ...
on 7 December 1919. It aimed towards a specific
popular socialism
Popular socialism or people's socialism is a distinct form of socialism in various countries.
Nordic countries
Popular socialism or people's socialism ( Danish: ''Folkesocialisme'') is a distinct socialist current in the Nordic countries.
In t ...
as a third position between
liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...
and
social democracy
Social democracy is a Political philosophy, political, Social philosophy, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocati ...
. Its leader was
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
's mayor
Anton Pesek
Anton may refer to: People
*Anton (given name), including a list of people with the given name
*Anton (surname)
Places
*Anton Municipality, Bulgaria
**Anton, Sofia Province, a village
*Antón District, Panama
**Antón, a town and capital of th ...
and they won two seats in the
1920 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election. The Party closely cooperated with the
Czechoslovak National Socialist Party in
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
, and during the 1927 elections with the Yugoslav
Independent Democratic Party.
Political parties in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Socialism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Slovenia
Socialist parties in Slovenia
{{yugoslavia-stub