Inđić was born in Lušci Palanka near Sanski Most, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern Bosnia & Herzegovina), orphaned during WW2.
He wanted to study chemistry, building a small lab in the basement of Čika Ljubina Street 17, but family insisted that he read law for better employment prospects.
He reached the upper echelons of Yugoslav Youth politics, travelling to Latin America in early 1960s.
He was expelled from the Communist Party after joining the student protests in 1968 and became a member of a dissident group Praxis School, with Ljubomir Tadić, for which he was expelled from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1975, along with seven other professors (Tadić, Nebojša Popov, Zagorka Golubović, Miladin Životić, Dragoljub Mićunović, Sveta Stojanović, and Mihailo Marković).
He was editor of the magazine "Vidici" (Panorama), "Gledišta" (Views), "Sociološki pregled" (Sociological Review), "Kultura" (Culture), and of the "Libertas" edition on political philosophy issued by the "Filip Višnjić" publishing house from Belgrade.