Jovo Bakić
Jovo Bakić is a Serbian sociologist, primarily interested in political sociology.Politics
In 2015, Bakić publicly aligned himself with Borko Stefanović after a political rift formed between Stefanović and the veteran politicians of the Democratic Party in Serbia. The split with the Democratic Party accumulated to Stefanović making his own new party in December 2015 called Levica Srbije, for which Bakić significantly contributed to the initial ideological profile. Bakić's vision for the new party was such that he argued for a left-libertarian movement based on secularism, democracy, anti-capitalism, internationalism, and opposition to NATO expansion. However, Bakić did not commit to the party after disagreements arose with Stefanović on the party's strategies and politics. One of the conditions which Bakić found non-negotiable was for the party to recruit only those who were not previously active with a major political party. In response to Bakić's disagreement, Stefanović said that anyone who accepted the party's program should qualify as a member, regardless of their previous political affiliations. Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, a political science professor at the University of Glasgow, defended Bakić's refusal to commit to Levica Srbije, arguing that "Borko Stefanović wants a party more like the Democratic Party in the United States, rather than like one of the leftist parties in Europe."
