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| [[Image:Nolan-chart.svg|thumb|left|165px|The [[Nolan Chart]], with the traditional left-right [[political spectrum]], as seen by [[David Nolan (Libertarian Party)|David Nolan]], on the dashed diagonal]] | | [[Image:Nolan-chart.svg|thumb|left|165px|The [[Nolan Chart]], with the traditional left-right [[political spectrum]], as seen by [[David Nolan (Libertarian Party)|David Nolan]], on the dashed diagonal]] |
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| Respecting the historical definition of libertarian, unlike to the [[Libertarian Party (United States)]], the Movimento Libertario seeks to bring in Italy the same contents of others libertarians parties and movements in the world but with the agorist practice of [[non-voting]],<ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=10&art=70685 ''Classic liberals at the polls: what to do?''] ''L'Opinione'', by Gustavo Cevolani. Retrieved on April 10, 2008.</ref> thus not directly participating in political Italian elections with the symbol of the Movimento Libertario. | | Respecting the historical definition of libertarian, the Movimento Libertario seeks to bring in Italy the same contents of others libertarians parties and movements in the world but with the agorist practice of [[non-voting]],<ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=10&art=70685 ''Classic liberals at the polls: what to do?''] ''L'Opinione'', by Gustavo Cevolani. Retrieved on April 10, 2008.</ref> thus not directly participating in political Italian elections with the symbol of the Movimento Libertario. |
| Although in fact the Movimento Libertario is an officially registered Italian political party, as [[anti-statist]] movement disclaims the [[Sovereign state|State]] legality and its political elections. | | Although in fact the Movimento Libertario is an officially registered Italian political party{{Citation nedded|}}, as [[anti-statist]] movement disclaims the [[Sovereign state|State]] legality and its political elections. |
| As a formal Italian political party it may decide to participate in the Italian political competition (at different levels) supporting from the outside its candidates through civic lists, or support the claims of parties close to its cultural vision to make its voice and disseminate ideas.
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| The Movimento Libertario is not classifiable in the political-ideologic traditions of the 20th century present in Italy. Like other libertarians entities in the world, the subject respects the [[political spectrum]] of [[Nolan Chart]]. One of its slogans said: "''Neither right nor left, nor centrist. Simply free is better''". | | The Movimento Libertario is not classifiable in the political-ideologic traditions of the 20th century present in Italy. Like other libertarians entities in the world, the subject respects the [[political spectrum]] of [[Nolan Chart]]. One of its slogans said: "''Neither right nor left, nor centrist. Simply free is better''". |
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| The Movimento Libertario is formally neutral as libertarian ideology, with an anarcho-capitalist vision, a [[voluntaryist]] organization and an [[agorist]] practices as characteristics.
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| Unlike the United States, in Italy and in the Movimento Libertario there are not internal controversies among the identity of libertarian term between libertarians members or a clear distinction between the [[right libertarian]] ([[paleolibertarian]] and [[libertarian conservatism|libertarian conservatives]]) members and left libertarians (the latter understood in their sense of American left libertarians Rothbardian like agorist, [[panarchist]] not to the European libertarian socialists) because the libertarian schools no presents so significant differences in their common anti-state vision. Moreover, these libertarian schools are not rooted in Italy if not with some representative members in the Movimento Libertario. The Movimento Libertario considers crucial to encourage what is common and unites all the various libertarian orientations, seeking to promote the protection of private property, free market and the natural law through actions and non-violent and peaceful means.
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| The bodies of internal administration include the Managing Director, Board of Directors, Assembly of Members, Groups of Territorial Association (called "clans"), Board of Auditors, and the Enclave of Essays. The Statute of the Movimento Libertario describes and regulates all bodies of internal administration and their function. Leonardo Facco co-founder of the Association, represents from 2007 till 2011 (in according to the statute and to the internal democracy of members of Association) the role of Managing Director of the Movimento Libertario. He represents the Movimento Libertario in their official activity.The Movimento Libertario is organized by a system of free participation of shareholders, registered members, and sympathizers on the Italian territory.Any adult who registers and pays a participation fee becomes a shareholder member of the movement and therefore acquired the right to vote and actively participate to the meetings of internal bodies. Minors, even if authorized by a single parent, may be enrolled only as members sympathizers with no rights to vote.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}
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| *Property is a natural and inalienable right of man, is primarily the property of themselves, of the own bodies and of one's life. | | *Property is a natural and inalienable right of man, is primarily the property of themselves, of the own bodies and of one's life. |
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| The Movimento Libertario, as political movement, is founded with the aim of reducing government to its lowest terms, to provide space for free interaction between individuals, or community consensus of individuals, who seek redress of their market needs.
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| Every member is said to have a moral duty to liberate the forces of civil society and free trade, eliminating any form of intervention in defense of individual liberties.
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| The Movimento Libertario Statute considers necessary for Italy:
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| * The return to full and effective [[Self-ownership|individual sovereignty]] over their lives and their belongings, which belongs to the natural right to govern themselves through non-violent methods of coercion or by exercising the right to self-determination is that the sacred principles of resistance and opposition to any kind of tax;
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| * The rights of the individual nature of a right of ownership of their bodies and their belongings held lawfully, in fulfillment of the Rothbardian [[Non-aggression axiom]]:
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| As is registered in its name, the Movimento Libertario wants promote in the Italian civil society the natural rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. Each share of the Movimento, which would achieve the above purposes, is based on the principle of [[non-violence]]: "''no one can attack the person and the property of others''".
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| Supports the abolition of taxation in all forms and it is against regulation of free trade, including tariffs, price controls, coercive insurance, and production quotas. An intermediate target on which to engage is the institutionalization of a [[flat tax]] whose rate is as low as possible (for example 22%) and one or more, no-tax area. The Movimento Libertario is an [[Eurosceptic]] movement, critical of the [[Euro]] and the presence of a European common economic monetary policy represented and direct by the [[European Central Bank]] and the [[European Commission]].
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| It is in favor of a return to the gold standard and to a [[free banking]] system. Does not recognize the legality and legitimacy of the [[World Trade Organization]], [[International Monetary Fund]], [[World Bank]] because they are statist organizations contrary to the principles of non-interference of governments in a free market economy. The Movimento Libertario is in favour of free market [[capitalism]], supports market [[liberalization]] and [[deregulation]], it also supports [[privatization]] of State economy sector ([[state monopoly capitalism]]).
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| It is against [[statism]] and [[protectionism]], rejects public and private [[mixed economies]], opposed to marxian [[communism]], [[fascist]] economic planning ([[corporativism]]) and keynesians socialists interventions in economy by the State ([[state capitalism]]) and politics. Believes work can not be regarded either as a right nor a duty, but only as a free choice of the individual, and as such, the work should not be subject to collective agreements or limited by rules. The collective agreement is deemed unconstitutional.
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| It is in favor of the abolition of professional orders of state; is not contrary to private professional orders and supports their spontaneous formation, but feel the problem arises from the institutionalization of professional orders of state and the choice of these same associations to act as a single party monopoly. Accession to the orders should not be imposed by law.
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| Supports the abolition of all business licenses; no price controls, balances, and no limitation in the initiation of new activities (such as limitations on the area or otherwise) may be exercised by the state and its territorial authorities. The Movimento Libertario recognizes the need for an emphasis on clarity of information to the public on the free choice of consumers.
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| The vision of the Movimento Libertario is an international foreign policy of [[nonintervention]] and non-violence like proposed by candidate for President of the [[United States]] in 2008 and 2012, [[Libertarian Republican|libertarian-republican]] Congressman [[Ron Paul]].
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| The movement is against any increase in military spending or strengthening of armaments by the Italian State, even within the [[NATO]], considered a military structure no longer necessary, and outside the context of the original defensive operations; it is against any forms of war, violent conflict or international interventions on foreign soil by Italian troops in line with the Rothbardian axiom of nonaggression;
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| The legality and legitimacy of the [[United Nations]] is questioned because this international organisation is contrary to the principle of a world without the presence of the State.
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| The [[European Union]] is considered a bureaucratic organization for the European Big Government, with the aim to reduce the free economy and the organization of the territory through central control.
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| The [[Lisbon Treaty]] adoption is not supported but the movement is not theoretically against the possible realization of a [[referendum]] for the free choice of Italians.
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| The movement supports individual and territorial separatism and independentism, the right of free self-determination of peoples and recognizing areas ([[enclave]]) within a framework of regional political autonomy within a loose opening of trade between regions.
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| Switzerland is considered an important model of confederative system both for the good economy development that for balanced policy organization of the territory.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5172:elvetizziamo-leuropa&catid=1:latest-news ''Transform the Europe in Swiss!''] by Giovanni Bonometti. Retrieved on May 6, 2010.</ref>
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| The Movimento Libertario favours the reduction of telephone tapping and registration requirement for the list of suspects intercepted, localization of security forces (more power to the municipal police as opposed to a reduction of the national police), supports experiments in privatization of police (without internal interferences of any Italian political party) in small towns, the strengthening the function of the justice of the peace and introduction of arbitration, and recognition and guarantee of the right to possess arms in defence of private property and life of each individual
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| The Movimento Libertario favors the [[Freedom of will|freedom of choice]] of individuals within the natural rights of property ([[negative rights]]) and liberty ([[negative liberty]]) a is to agree to recognize responsibility for personal actions and not to delegate to others their own choices, or do so in an informed way.
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| The movement supports a depenalization of light drugs (such as [[cannabis]]); supports the individual right to [[prostitution]] and [[abortion]].
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| The movement is contrary to any form of restriction of freedom, control or censorship by the state, the imposition of coercive state abortion, the financing of every kind of marriage by the state,<ref>[http://ilgiorno.ilsole24ore.com/brescia/cronaca/locale/2009/09/29/238358-siamo_uguali_carcerati_tempo_misurato_vedere_quelli_sono_nostri_figli.shtml ''We are equal to the prisoners, measured time to see who are our children''] [[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]], by Magda Biglia, Retrieved on September 29, 2009.</ref> and the [[prohibition]] of drugs, alcohol and smoking.
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| The Movimento Libertario is favorable to [[homeschooling]] and to freedom of teaching and choice.
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| The Movimento Libertario is favorable to the creation of a pattern of private health care.
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| The Movimento Libertario favors the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the networks and media.
| | In April 2010, the Movimento Libertario and its members were subjected to threats and acts of violent vandalism in its headquarters by a Italian [[Anti-globalization movement]] and [[environmentalist]] group about the question of GMO maize.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66sP-6e4nY Video about violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers'']</ref><ref>[http://www.agi.it/trieste/notizie/201004302035-cro-rts1025-ogm_fvg_oppositori_irrompono_in_sede_agricoltori_federati ''GMO: FVG, opponents bursts within Federated Farmers''] ''Agi News'' Retrieved on April 30, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/mais_ogm_scoppia_guerra_seme/01-05-2010/articolo-id=442040-page=0-comments=1 ''GMO maize, war breaks out of the seed''] ''Il Giornale'', by Fausto Biloslavo. Retrieved on May 1, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U724XcLZDk ''TG5 tv service on Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario first sowing GMO in Italy''] Retrieved on May 1, 2010. In the tv service the violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers.</ref> |
| The movement is against public funding of political parties, newspapers and denominational schools, and Italian public television paid for through taxes.<ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/stop_allabbonamento_raccomandata_e_516_euro/27-09-2009/articolo-id=385900-page=0-comments=1 ''Stop subscription with a recommendation and 5.16 euro''] ''[[Il Giornale]]'', by Felice Manti. Retrieved on September 27, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/io_li_ho_messi_sacco_cosi_si_sono_arresi/evasione_fiscale-leonardo_facco-canone_rai/29-09-2009/articolo-id=386395-page=0-comments=1 "''I've put them in the bag: so they are surrendered''"] ''[[Il Giornale]]'' by Felice Manti. Retrieved on September 29, 2009. An interview to Leonardo Facco about the payment of public television fee</ref>
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| | Italian Radicals referred in Parliament the threats to person and property that Giorgio Fidenato and Italian Federated Farmers received.<ref>[http://www.camera.it/417?idSeduta=316&resoconto=bt13¶m=n4-07050#n4-07050 ''Assembly Reports''] Annex B Seat N°316, May 4, 2010. Italian parliamentary question of the Italian Radicals to the Italian minister of the Interior and to his colleague to the Italian Agriculture. Archived from [http://www.camera.it/417?idSeduta=316&resoconto=bt13¶m=n4-07050#n4-07050 http://www.camera.it]</ref> |
| | | Parliamentary questions mentions also that the Italian government still does not recognize the right to sown GMO maize, as determined by decision of the [[Italian Council of State]] and European Community Directive. |
| For its anti-statist positions on taxes, in favor of free choice of individuals and more free market with less government, for the strong criticizing to Italian political and to its major protagonists, the Movimento Libertario and its members are severely criticized by many Italian politicians parties.
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| Both main centre-right and centre-left parties and related Italian coalitions, criticize the ML proposing about the economic cuts of taxes, the reduction of State presence in the economy and the withdrawal of Italian troops from the international war scenarios.
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| The Italian centre-right coalition (The People of Freedom and the [[Northern League (Italy)|Northern League]]) criticizing the ML in particular for the individual choice and the anti-prohibitionism battle in the civil rights context by this; in economy criticizing the Movimento Libertario for a request of a new reform of Italian private pension provision in capitalist sense, for the abolition of Italian provinces and a reduction of national and local State costs by this.
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| The Movimento Libertario considers these parties respectively like [[populism|populists]] former [[socialist|socialists]] and national-statist against individual liberties and economic territorial autonomy.
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| The Italian new centrist coalition, [[New Pole for Italy]] ([[Future and Freedom]], [[Union of the Centre (2008)| Union of the Centre]] and [[Alliance for Italy]]) are considered like corporativist burocrats and paternalists rhetorical.
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| The Italian centre-left coalition (Democratic Party and [[Italy of Values]]) criticizing the ML for the private healthcare purpose, the abolition of [[italian welfare state]], the withholding tax and the abolition of wiretaps by the judiciary.
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| The Movimento Libertario considers these parties like a crypto-[[communist]] and justicialists parties.
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| Giorgio Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario has received support by the Italian Radicals of [[Marco Pannella]] by secretary, Mario Staderini<ref>[http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=149336 ''Interview with Mario Staderini: "No Longer with the PD Unable to Fight"''], ''L'Opinione'' by Dimitri Buffa. Retrieved on November 19, 2009. Archived from [http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=149336 http://www.radicali.it/]</ref><ref>[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/messaggeroveneto/2009/11/19/PN_02_PNB2.html ''Fidenato process, Italian Radicals protests''] ''Messaggero Veneto'', page 2. Retrieved on November 19, 2009. Archived from [http://ricerca.repubblica.it/ http://www.repubblica.it/]</ref>and others association in the battle over the withholding tax.<ref>[http://ricerca.gelocal.it/messaggeroveneto/archivio/messaggeroveneto/2009/11/12/PN_04_PND1.html ''Fidenato, the battle with the Inland Revenue continues with the process and the sit-in''] ''Messaggero Veneto'', by Elena Del Giudice, page 4. Retrieved on November 12, 2009.</ref>
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| Giorgio Fidenato, as representative of the Movimento Libertario, was invited to discuss his case at the national conference of the Italian Radicals in November 2009.<ref>[http://vimeo.com/7667910 Video on the speech of Giorgio Fidenato in Congress of Italian Radicals] held in Chianciano Terme in November 2009.</ref>
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| On April 30, 2010, Elisabetta Zamparutti, Italian Radical member of [[Italian Parliament]] in Environment Committee turned her solidarity to the Movimento Libertario, Federated Farmers and Giorgio Fidenato, claiming their action of nonviolent civil disobedience for the sown of GMO maize, arguing the need to open Italy to the cultivation of GMOs.<ref>[http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=156553 ''GMO, Zamparutti: The act of civil disobedience on GMO research and helps agriculture''] Retrieved on April 30, 2010.</ref>
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| In the Italian Radicals parliamentary questions there are refers threats to person and property that Giorgio Fidenato and Italian Federated Farmers received by environmentalists, anti-globalization and communist movements.<ref>[http://www.camera.it/417?idSeduta=316&resoconto=bt13¶m=n4-07050#n4-07050 ''Assembly Reports''] Annex B Seat N°316, May 4, 2010. Italian parliamentary question of the Italian Radicals to the Italian minister of the Interior and to his colleague to the Italian Agriculture. Archived from [http://www.camera.it/417?idSeduta=316&resoconto=bt13¶m=n4-07050#n4-07050 http://www.camera.it]</ref>
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| Parliamentary questions mentions also that the Italian government still does not recognize to Giorgio Fidenato, the Italian Federated Farmers, the Movimento Libertario and Futuragra the right to sown GMO maize, as determined by decision of the [[Italian Council of State]] and European Community Directive. | |
| Among the political groups outside the ML there is also the case of the association Libertiamo that refer to certain principles of liberalism.
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| In April 2010, the Movimento Libertario and its members (in particular Giorgio Fidenato and Leonardo Facco) were subjected to threats and acts of violent vandalism in its headquarters by Italian [[Anti-globalization movement]] and Italian [[left wing]] [[anti-capitalist]] and [[environmentalist]] groups about the question of GMO maize.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66sP-6e4nY Video about violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers'']</ref><ref>[http://www.agi.it/trieste/notizie/201004302035-cro-rts1025-ogm_fvg_oppositori_irrompono_in_sede_agricoltori_federati ''GMO: FVG, opponents bursts within Federated Farmers''] ''Agi News'' Retrieved on April 30, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/mais_ogm_scoppia_guerra_seme/01-05-2010/articolo-id=442040-page=0-comments=1 ''GMO maize, war breaks out of the seed''] ''Il Giornale'', by Fausto Biloslavo. Retrieved on May 1, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U724XcLZDk ''TG5 tv service on Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario first sowing GMO in Italy''] Retrieved on May 1, 2010. In the tv service the violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers.</ref><ref>[http://www.newnotizie.it/2010/05/01/agricoltori-pro-biotech-sfidano-il-decreto/ ''Pro-biotech farmers defy the decree''] by Stefano Bernardi. Retrieved on May 1, 2010.</ref>
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| From March 2010, the Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates actively in the initiative offered by [http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/ Confcontribuenti], a Confederation of Italian taxpayers.
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| Confcontribuenti supports the Movimento Libertario and Giorgio Fidenato in his battle against withholding tax.<ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:sostituto-dimposta&catid=41:sostituto-dimposta&Itemid=64 ''Withholding tax''] Retrieved on February 3, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=3&art=90283 ''The Battle of Confcontribuenti for the abatement of taxes unfair''] ''l'Opinione'' by Stefano Magni. Retrieved on March 11, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71%3A1-aprile-sentenza-sul-sostituto-dimposta&catid=34%3Aultime-notizie&Itemid=1 ''1 April: ruling on withholding tax''] Retrieved on February 3, 2010.</ref>
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| The Movimento Libertario wants to create a critical mass of owners and tax payers to launch peacefully Italian protests against the government tax collectors,<ref>[http://opinione.it/articolo.php?arg=3&art=66631 ''"We defend the money from the theft of state!"''] ''L'Opinione'' by Stefano Magni. Retrieved on December 1, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.brunoleoni.it/nextpage.aspx?codice=5684 ''Taxes? If no one likes to pay them a reason there will be...''] ''L'Occidentale'', by Carlo Stagnaro. Retrieved on October 8, 2007. Archived by [http://www.brunoleoni.it http://www.brunoleoni.it]</ref> like the case of [[Tea party protests]] US.<ref>[http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/Tasse-c-e-chi-vuole-boicottare-i-prodotti-sardi/1603547/6 ''Taxes, there are those who want to boycott products Sardinian''] ''La Nuova, nuova Sardegna'', by Alfredo Franchini, page 3. Retrieved on May 11, 2007. Archived by [http://espresso.repubblica.it http://espresso.repubblica.it]</ref><ref>[http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio-local/Tasse-sul-lusso-rivolta-via-web/1608496/6 ''Taxes on luxury, addressed via Web''] ''La Nuova, nuova Sardegna''. Retrieved on May 14, 2007. Archived by [http://espresso.repubblica.it http://espresso.repubblica.it]</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5818:dal-tea-party-alla-rivolta-fiscale&catid=1:latest-news#yvComment5818 ''From the Tea Party to the tax revolt''] by Leonardo Facco. Retrieved on May 30, 2010.</ref>
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| From April 2010, the Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates actively in the initiative offered by [http://www.teapartyitalia.it Tea Party Italia], for the organisation of some Italian Tea Party events.Tea Party Italia association is an independent voluntary association led by David Mazzarelli born around the online cultural magazine [http://www.ultimathule.it/ Ultima Thule.it].<ref>[http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/organizziamo-il-primo-tea-party-italiano-chi-ci-sta.html ''We organize the first ItalianTea Party. Who joins?''] by drafting of Ultimathule.it. Retrieved on February 9, 2010</ref>
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| Inside the intellectual and cultural leaders are classical liberals, fiscal conservatives, liberists and libertarians from various think tanks and Italian associations. Between them in addition to the Movimento Libertario are also Confcontribuenti, Usemlab, Libertiamo, Italian Student for Individual Liberty.
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| On May 20, 2010 the Movimento Libertario has been at [[Prato]] for the first Italian Tea Party, an organized meeting to discuss the excessive tax burden in Italy and the classic liberals and liberist solutions to economic crisis.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4830:prato-il-primo-tea-party-italiano&catid=1:latest-news ''Prato, the first Italian Tea Party''] Retrieved on April 15, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/il-primo-tea-party-italiano-prato-il-20-maggio.html ''The first Italian Tea Party on May 20''] Retrieved on May 5, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.t-party.it/2010/5/21/tea-party-prato-liberali,-libertari-e-conservatori-per-la-rivoluzione-fiscale.aspx ''Prato Tea Party: classical liberals, libertarians and fiscal conservatives for tax revolution''] by Saba Giulia Zecchi, Retrieved on May 21, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5465:primo-tea-party-italiano-la-registrazione-dellevento&catid=1:latest-news ''First Italian Tea Party, the video event''] by Raffaele Schettino Retrieved on May 21, 2010. Archived from [http://vimeo.com/11916813 http://vimeo.com] Video of the evening event on Prato, First Italian Tea Party on may 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3tLbWRDS0 ''Tea Party, video service local television news network''] Retrieved on May 24, 2010. Archived by [http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5565:tea-party-servizio-al-tg-locale&catid=1:latest-news http://www.movimentolibertario.it] Video interviews with Marco Respinti (Columbia Institute) and Leonardo Facco (ML).</ref><ref>[http://www.libero-news.it/news/416906/I_Tea_Party_sbarcano_in_Italia__meno_tasse__pi%C3%B9_libert%C3%A0.html ''The Tea Party landed at Italy: Less taxes, more freedom''] ''Libero'', by Saba Giulia Zecchi. Retrieved on May 21, 2010. Archived from [http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/tea-party-prato-liberali-libertari-e-conservatori-la-rivoluzione-fiscale.html http://www.ultimathule.it].</ref> The meeting was organized against any State intervention and anti-socialization of our economy, to claim the right to personal autonomy and economic individual responsibility.
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| In view of the second Italian Tea Party event in [[Rome]] on June 26, 2010, the movement association of Tea Party Italia has provided the distribution of forms necessary to ask your employer to receive the gross salary in the pay packet: an act of resistance against the withholding tax considered a tax scam.
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| With the public distribution of the modules, the Tea Party of Rome wants to support the struggle of Giorgio Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario for the abolition of withholding tax.<ref>[http://www.t-party.it/2010/6/6/tea-party-roma-distribuzione-dei-moduli-per-chiedere-al-datore-di-lavoro-lo-stipendio-lordo-in-busta-paga.aspx ''Tea Party Rome: distribution of forms to ask the employer to pay gross payroll''] by Tea Party Rome. Retrieved on June 6, 2010.</ref>
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| Following media speculation by journals near to Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]] in connection with a possible participation of the President of the Chamber [[Gianfranco Fini]] in the roman rallies anti-taxes,<ref>[http://www.italiaoggi.it/giornali/dettaglio_giornali.asp?preview=false&accessMode=FA&id=1661551&codiciTestate=1 ''For Fini a Tea Party all purple''] ''Italia Oggi'' page 7, by Antonio Calitri. Retrieved on June 3, 2010.</ref> Tea Party Italia through his spokesman Mazzerelli denied the validity of such journalistic manipulations, because the anti-taxes rallies and the Italian Tea Party movement can't be exploited by the Italian ruling class policy for political consensus, given the severe budget situation of the country due to lack of tax cuts and structural liberist reforms in the last decades by Italian politics.<ref>[http://www.t-party.it/2010/6/4/comunicato-tea-party-italia.aspx ''Press Tea Party Italy''] by Coordination Tea Party Italy. Retrieved on June 4, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ultimathule.it/articolo/il-tea-party-italia-non-appartiene-nessun-leader-politico.html ''The Tea Party Italy belongs to no political leader''] by David Mazzarelli. Retrieved on June 4, 2010.</ref>
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| The imaginative newspaper reconstructions may also depend on co-participation accession of [[Generation Italy]] (very close to the Italian Speaker of the House) among the founders and organizers of the roman event but the organization and responsibility of the Italian Tea Party is not therefore bound to any political party or personality. The Movimento Libertario criticized the attempt by some Italian newspapers that want to politicize the Italian Tea Party assessment and presentation outside the real context of spontaneous action to protest anti-politics from which they were born.
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| It believes that the Italian disinformation effort is the result of manipulation of the press reports by Italian politics and an attempt to the majority of center-right government to regain credibility and political support from voters disillusioned, despite broken promises and the constant internal quarrels<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5946:gianfranco-fini-i-qtea-partyq-il-giornalismo-fariseo&catid=1:latest-news ''Gianfranco Fini, the "tea-party," the pharisee newspaper!''] Retrieved on June 4, 2010.</ref>
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| Movimento Libertario, also seen its membership status, is recognized in the statements promoted and supported by David Mazzerelli refusing any combination with the political party initiatives and proposals by Gianfranco Fini, considered an opportunist statist man and a fake classic liberal politic seen also on his ideological past<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5723:gianfranco-fini-la-qmorteq-del-liberalismo&catid=1:latest-news ''Gianfranco Fini, the "Death" of Liberalism!''] Retrieved on May 27, 2010.</ref> and actual positions expressed in his long career policy on economy and individual rights.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5173:un-libertario-ha-lobbligo-morale-di-ignorare-gianfranco-fini&catid=1:latest-news ''A libertarian has a moral obligation to ignore Gianfranco Fini''] by Leonardo Facco. Retrieved on May 6, 2010.</ref>
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The term Movimento Libertario (Template:Lang-en) refers to a political party and a cultural movement organisation based in Italy characterized by a libertarianism cultural and political platform: minimal regulation of Italian society, liberism of the markets, strong defense of natural rights of liberty and property, non-interventionism in foreign policy, and laissez-faire freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries.Template:Citation needed
History
The Movimento Libertario was originally an Italian cultural association for the dissemination of libertarianism. It began on September 24, 2005, in Treviglio with the writing of the "Manifesto and Constitution of the Movimento Libertario" by Leonardo Facco. The Movimento Libertario became also an Italian political subject when it was officially founded in September 2007 by Leonardo Facco, Giorgio Fidenato and Marcello Mazzilli,[1]Template:Citation needed to defend life, liberty and property of each individual within a strong liberist system of free market, against any kind of aggression and/or coercion. The Association has its registered office in the Municipality of Pordenone.
The Movimento Libertario has as its symbol a round disk with a yellow-gold background in reference to the gold standard and also to its membership in the anarcho-capitalist movement. The symbol is part of the assets of the association.
The term movimento libertario in Italian language has a dual meaning.
Historically, it first generally refers to the Italian anarchism and European anarchist movements (libertarism) with social anarchist inspirations.[2] The anarchist socialist tradition uses the term "libertarism" to describe themselves and their ideas since 1857. The French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque employed the term libertario in a political sense in an open letter criticizing Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.[3][4]
Italian libertarians of the Movimento Libertario use the Italian anarchic term libertario not to refer to European ideas and methods of traditional anarchism, but to refer to the concepts of principles of market liberalism, introduced in Italy by Bruno Leoni. They want also to remark and increase the cultural distance from Italian and European conception of liberalism, that in the 20th century appeared as democratic liberalism forms of statism. Italian libertarians of the ML often prefer to define themselves as libertarians libertari but with adjective connotative of anarcho-capitalists, to distinguish themselves as pro-market supporters from the libertarians socialists or the traditional anarchists.
Traditional and collectivists Italian anarchists, they judge the ML as not a real anarchist movement, but they think that rather is a ploy of the classic liberal elite and middle class to increase social inequality. They also consider that the term libertario or at least inappropriate for the nature of the movement within the Italian historical context.[5]
Cultural association
The Movimento Libertario, as cultural association intends to be an Italian promoter of the spread of classical liberalism and libertarian vision in policy, free market and economic liberalism in economy.Their motto is: "Everyone is free to do what he thinks is right for himself, without attacking anyone, and without attacking the property rights of others".The movement's members believe that policy is especially spread of freedom as economic freedom culture: meetings, debates, on the web, and with conferences and publications Template:Citation needed
Inspiration
The Movimento Libertario is politically inspired by the classical liberalism of John Locke and the Founding Fathers of the United States conjugated to 19th-century American individualist anarchist strand of Benjamin Tucker, Henry David Thoreau and Lysander Spooner.[6][7]
In economy it is inspired on lessons of the Austrian school and in particular to the theoretic formulation of the philosopher and economist libertarian anarcho-capitalist Murray N. Rothbard.[8]
The actions in favor of tax resistance, free entrepreneurship and political non-voting also recall the agorist reflections by Samuel Edward Konkin III although the Movimento Libertario does not officially identify itself in programmatic positions and spectrum of the American left-libertarians.
Movimento Libertario also includes some aspects from the American model of liberty theorized by Robert Nozick (minarchism) and the Objectivism philosophy described in novels by Ayn Rand. The Movimento Libertario refers to freedom of association of the anarchic federalism, anarcho-capitalist free market society and to the Jeffersonian limited government of classical liberalism.
The term "federalism" as it is used by the Movimento Libertario, in a sense to be in favor of a political of decentralization and for a real local fiscality against the centralism of the national Italian State.
The Movimento Libertario is an anti-federalist organization about the Europe; it is against the federal European Union government, preferring the voluntary accession and the unanimity of a Confederation.
Historians Italian thinkers of reference for the Movimento Libertario in economy and policy include Ferdinando Galiani, Cesare Beccaria, Filippo Mazzei, Emerico Amari, Carlo Cattaneo, Gaetano Mosca, Vilfredo Pareto, Luigi Einaudi, Bruno Leoni, Gianfranco Miglio.Template:Citation needed
Publications
The Movimento Libertario periodically publish two magazines: I Fogli di Enclave and the magazine Enclave which give space to various political issues, cultural, social and economic libertarians Italian and international.Template:Citation neededIn Scientific Committee of Enclave magazine belong: Walter Block, David D. Friedman, Hans Hermann Hoppe, John Hospers, Antonio Martino, Pierre Lemieux, Tibor R. Machan, Jan Narveson, Wendy McElroy, Ralph Raico, Robert Sirico, Thomas S. Szasz.
The Movimento Libertario collaborates actively with the members of and their Association (ALT), in cultural and economic free market iniziatives (conferences and publications like I Fogli di Enclave) between libertarians subjects in Italy and Canton Ticino.
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Party
Respecting the historical definition of libertarian, the Movimento Libertario seeks to bring in Italy the same contents of others libertarians parties and movements in the world but with the agorist practice of non-voting,[9] thus not directly participating in political Italian elections with the symbol of the Movimento Libertario.
Although in fact the Movimento Libertario is an officially registered Italian political partyTemplate:Citation nedded, as anti-statist movement disclaims the State legality and its political elections.
The Movimento Libertario is not classifiable in the political-ideologic traditions of the 20th century present in Italy. Like other libertarians entities in the world, the subject respects the political spectrum of Nolan Chart. One of its slogans said: "Neither right nor left, nor centrist. Simply free is better".
Principles
The Movimento Libertario in its founding act declares and acknowledges libertarian principles as internals to its Statute:
- Freedom, understood as the absence of constraint is a natural right of the individual, which nobody (private or public organization) must threaten;
- The Government, in its various variants, forces people to obey blindly and accept legislation invasive and oppressive monopoly;
- Everyone has the right to seek their own happiness and that of his loved ones, taking responsibility for their actions;
- Each individual is entitled organize in freedom themselves to protect their lives and their belongings, particularly given the enormous difficulties posed by the power of politicians at all levels;
- The need to eliminate and reduce the state, politicians and bureaucracies in the everyday life, increasingly recognizing the dignity of all people working really, producing their own resources and possessions.
- Property is a natural and inalienable right of man, is primarily the property of themselves, of the own bodies and of one's life.
Notable political battle
About the withholding tax
Battle to sow GMO maize
The Movimento Libertario favors the free cultivation and the free marketing of seeds and GMO foods and no limits to GMOs in Italy, consumer freedom to choose their own products, and freedom of private scientific research as long as it respect the natural human rights and it does not use public money.
The Movimento Libertario does not support the theory of global warming.
Violence suffered
In April 2010, the Movimento Libertario and its members were subjected to threats and acts of violent vandalism in its headquarters by a Italian Anti-globalization movement and environmentalist group about the question of GMO maize.[10][11][12][13]
Italian Radicals referred in Parliament the threats to person and property that Giorgio Fidenato and Italian Federated Farmers received.[14]
Parliamentary questions mentions also that the Italian government still does not recognize the right to sown GMO maize, as determined by decision of the Italian Council of State and European Community Directive.
Enrico Montesano
In 2009, Italian actor Enrico Montesano joined the Movimento Libertario and supports the Giorgio Fidenato's battle to abolish withholding tax.[15] Montesano is against the Single Fund for the Performing Arts allocated by the government to finance Italian theater and film productions.[16] He supports the proposition that the "work of an artist is judged at the box office and is the public that decides."[17][18]
See also
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References
- ↑ The libertarian way to happiness L'Opinione, by Elisa Borghi. Retrieved on May 18, 2007. Interview to Marcello Mazzilli spokesman of the Movimento Libertario.
- ↑ Woodcock, George (1966). L'anarchia: storia delle idee e dei movimenti libertari. Milano: Feltrinelli Editore.
- ↑ Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas - Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE-1939)], ed. Robert Graham; includes English translations of Joseph Dejacque's 1857 letter to Proudhon.
- ↑ "De l'être-humain mâle et femelle–Lettre à P.J. Proudhon par Joseph Déjacque" (in French)
- ↑ Norman P. Barry, Del liberalismo classico e del libertarianismo, ELiDiR , Roma, 1993
- ↑ Paolo Zanotto, Il Movimento Libertario americano dagli anni sessanta ad oggi: radici storico-dottrinali e discriminanti ideologico-politiche, Siena, Università degli Studi di Siena, 2001. Archived from http://www.unisi.it
- ↑ The political theory of libertarian political, cultural and economic references of the Movimento Libertario
- ↑ The legacy of the Austrian School l'Opinione, by William Longhi. Retrieved on April 29, 2004.
- ↑ Classic liberals at the polls: what to do? L'Opinione, by Gustavo Cevolani. Retrieved on April 10, 2008.
- ↑ Video about violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers
- ↑ GMO: FVG, opponents bursts within Federated Farmers Agi News Retrieved on April 30, 2010.
- ↑ GMO maize, war breaks out of the seed Il Giornale, by Fausto Biloslavo. Retrieved on May 1, 2010.
- ↑ TG5 tv service on Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario first sowing GMO in Italy Retrieved on May 1, 2010. In the tv service the violent protests by environmentalists and no-global movements against Italian Federated Farmers.
- ↑ Assembly Reports Annex B Seat N°316, May 4, 2010. Italian parliamentary question of the Italian Radicals to the Italian minister of the Interior and to his colleague to the Italian Agriculture. Archived from http://www.camera.it
- ↑ The Masaniello of "impossible" freedom Il Secolo d'Italia, by Daniele Priori. Retrieved on February 17, 2010. Archived from http://www.movimentolibertario.it/
- ↑ Montesano, the libertarian I fogli di Enclave n°11 by Franco Possenti, page 1,4. Retrieved on February 2010. Archived from http://www.movimentolibertario.it/
- ↑ And Montesano sings the libertarians Rap! Il Secolo d'Italia by Daniele Priori. Retrieved on October 10, 2009. Archived from http://www.movimentolibertario.it/
- ↑ And Montesano sings the libertarians Rap! Il Secolo d'Italia by Daniele Priori, page 16. Retrieved on November 4, 2009. Archived from http://www.nereovilla.it
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