Movimento Libertario

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,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. 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.

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.

Cultural diffusion

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.

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.

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.{{Citation needed|} }In 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.date

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. {{Citation needed|}

Platform

The Nolan Chart, with the traditional left-right political spectrum, as seen by David Nolan, on the dashed diagonal

Respecting the historical definition of libertarian, unlike to the Libertarian Party (United States), the Movimento Libertario want bring in Italy the same contents of others libertarians parties and movements in the world but with the agorist practice of non-voting, 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 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.

The Movimento Libertario is not classifiable in the political-ideologic traditions of the 20th century presents 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".

Spectrum internal libertarianism

The Movimento Libertario is formally neutral as libertarian ideology, with an anarcho-capitalist vision, a voluntaryist organization and an agorist practices as characteristics.

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 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.

Structure and membership

The bodies of internal administration include the Managing Director, Board of Directors (B.o. D.), Assembly of Members (Meeting of Shareholders), Groups of Territorial Association (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.

Principles

The Movimento Libertario in its founding act declares and acknowledges libertarian principles as internals to its Statute:

• The 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.

• The Property is a natural and inalienable right of man, is primarily the property of themselves, of the own bodies and of one's life.

It can not be granted or denied by any social system, whether democratic or authoritarian.

Property also means all that belongs to the person and that is not the result of an act of violence, but by the work of the person, the acquisition and transformation of the state of nature and with free interaction of individuals.

Purpose

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.

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. The Movimento Libertario Statute considers necessary for Italy:

• The return to full and effective 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;

• 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:

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".

Political positions

Economy

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Foreign policy

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 Congressman Ron Paul. 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; 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.

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.

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.

The movement supports individual and territorial separatism and indipendentism, 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.

Switzerland is considered an important model of confederative system both for the good economy development that for balanced policy organization of the territory.

Security

The Movimento Libertario favors 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 defense of private property and life of each individual

Civil Rights

The Movimento Libertario favors the 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.

The movement supports a depenalization of light drugs (such as cannabis); supports the individual right to prostitution and abortion.

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, and the prohibition of drugs, alcohol and smoking.

Education

The Movimento Libertario is favorable to the homeschooling and to freedom of teaching and choice.

Health

The Movimento Libertario is favorable to the creation of a pattern of private health care.

This is to avoid the justification for state control over private behavior motivated by the fact that the state spends money on health.

Science

For Movimento Libertario and the right to sow GMO maize, see Giorgio Fidenato#The right 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.

Speech

The Movimento Libertario favors the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the networks and media.

The movement is against public funding of political parties, newspapers and denominational schools, and Italian public television paid for through taxes.

Economic Crisis

The Movimento Libertario following the principles and lessons of the Austrian school and economic analysis on the subprime mortgage by Peter Schiff was able to predict in advance the economic crisis of 2008, the economic difficulties of Greece and Italy in 2010.

The Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates in various projects with the Italian Cultural Association of Austrian economics and its promoter Francesco Carbone.

Usemlab was initially founded by Francesco Carbone, a financial advisor, only as website; in November 2007 founded officially the USEMLAB (acronym of Us Equity and Macro Lab) as Association in Turin which aims to stimulate and promote the economic debate, particularly with respect to defense of a sound money.

Francesco Carbone member and collaborator of the Movimento Libertario in his book Prevedibile e Inevitabile has harshly criticized the regime of fiat money issued by central banks to government initiative during the rescue of banks and other institutes at the end of 2008 and in 2009.

Carbone in his book has provided well in advance the economic crisis since 2002; during 2003-2004 he attended the doctoral seminar of Spanish Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto in Madrid and his Austrian Economics course, he became friend with de Soto and disseminate his lessons in Italy on the website of Association (USEMLAB.com).

According to Usemlab, Swiss Liberist of Canton Ticino and the Movimento Libertario monetary expansion will cause inflation and a decline in purchasing power and the value of money in United States and Europe.

In March 2009, Andrea De Marchi a member of Usemlab wrote the book Inflazione malattia primaria explaining in terms of Austrian school as in the absence of a true market capitalism, the supply of fiat money by the central banks produce growth effects of inflation with consequent impoverishment of the population, nepotism, privilege, arrogance of the powerful crime, social injustice, failure of services.

Usemlab and the Movimento Libertario were been able to predict in advance the rise of gold price.

They believe that the monetary crisis in the Eurozone and in the countries such as "PIIGS" is only the beginning of more economic crisis and defaults resulting from excessive state intervention and a wrong approach to the monetary problem by governments.

Since May 2009, the Movimento Libertario sent to various Italian politicians and political forces a paper on the Italian and international economic situation from the perspective of the Austrian School.

In this paper, the Movimento Libertario called on the Italian policy in a drastic reduction of its role in the economy.

The reduction of State hasn't been pursued through a drastic spending cuts and taxes, particularly those that impede the savings and the investments.

The reduction of taxation and public spending would lead automatically to a shifting of social relationship between savings, investment and consumption towards the former, thereby reducing greatly the time to return to a prosperous economy.

During depression each reduction of taxes or any interference that impedes the free market will stimulate healthy economic activity, conversely, any increase in taxes or other measures to further depress the economy.

The Movimento Libertario believes that different measures were took, were differents from what stated above, so the situation of crisis and difficulties for Italy they will continue indefinitely.

Relationship to major parties

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.

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.

The Italian centre-right coalition (The People of Freedom and the 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.

The Movimento Libertario considers these parties respectively like populists former socialists and national-statist against individual liberties and economic territorial autonomy.

The Italian new centrist coalition, New Pole for Italy (Future and Freedom, Union of the Centre and Alliance for Italy) are considered like corporativist burocrats and paternalists rhetorical.

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.

The Movimento Libertario considers these parties like a crypto-communist and justicialists parties.

Relationship with other Italian intellectual associations and political parties

Among the political groups outside the ML there is the case of the Italian Radicals members of the Italian Radical Party that refer to certain principles of left libertarianism, which although part of the coalition of centre-left with Democratic Party, they offer a social liberal view favorable to free market and private property, together with a vision of the left liberalism in particular as regards the vision of civil rights and the secular State.

The Italian Radicals called sometimes themselves as "socialists", but they are not properly defined within a European vision of libertarianism of the left (radical socialism) because they are members of the ELDR group in the European Parliament and their economic battles are in favor of free markets and for an American reform of Italian institutions.

Their vision is similar to the American left libertarians for their pacifism and nonviolence with some elements of libertarian socialism although historically they tend to refer to Italian radical risorgimental and to the left reformist French models.

Many left-wing Italian parties refuse to recognize the Italian Radicals status of subject to left party although their State vision is very similar to the American "liberals" in many contexts.

Very often, the Italian Radicals are politically out of the coalitions as a third party.

Although the Movimento Libertario differ on many points from the Italian Radicals, it maintains close relations with them and their media (like Radio Radicale) in particular as regards the battle against the withholding tax.

Giorgio Fidenato and the Movimento Libertario has received support by the Italian Radicals of Marco Pannella by secretary, Mario Staderini and others association in the battle over the withholding tax.

Giorgio Fidenato, as representative of the Movimento Libertario, was invited to discuss his case at the national conference of the Italian Radicals in Chianciano Terme (in Province of Siena) in November 2009.

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.

On May 4, 2010, Italian Radicals parliamentaries Elisabetta Zamparutti, Marco Beltrandi, Rita Bernardini, Maria Antonietta Farina Coscioni, Matteo Mecacci e Maurizio Turco (Lista Emma Bonino in the Italian Democratic Party have deposited (and publishing the following day) a parliamentary question written to Italian Minister of the Interior, Roberto Maroni and to the new Italian Minister of Agriculture, Giancarlo Galan to know what they are going to do on possible new attacks in the future headquarters of Italian Federated Farmers and on the issue of GMOs.

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.

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.

The members come from Liberal Reformers party and from historical factions of classical liberals, fiscal conservatives and liberal-conservatives of Forza Italia party and some finiano member of National Alliance.

Libertiamo is a minor internal cultural faction of Future and Freedom party, after the leaving of The People of Freedom.

It is favorable to free market vision with freedom choice about bioethical themes like abortion and stem cells research and free-market environmentalist policy.

Libertiamo, although the name that recall libertarian brand, is not a libertarian faction but a liberal-conservatives with liberal-democratic think tank very close with Gianfranco Fini and his political positions.

The Movimento Libertario don't have a particular relations with this association, although it still has given its formal support against the withholding tax, supporting Giorgio Fidenato and the right to sow GMO maize. and mentions some initiatives of the ML on its website.

The case of "anarchists analytical"

Outside the Movimento Libertario, there are some Italians individual anarchist and former libertarians (like Luigi Corvaglia, Ricccardo La Conca, Fabio Massimo Nicosia) called "anarchists analytical" that have not joined in the ML, preferring a vision of theoretical synthesis between Rothbardian libertarianism and traditional anarchism or libertarian socialism.

In the "anarchists analytical" group (that is not a political party but only a cultural movement), the coherent and rigorous vision of the Movimento Libertario about the defense of market ideas in all its aspects, is often interpreted and criticized as a tendency to moral conservatism (without any form of ethical relativism).

If this is true as regards the theoretical level of the libertarian principles on the natural rights of property and about the free market, it is false as regards the freedom of individual choice (for himself in the context of respect of the others individuals).Template:Citation needed

Violence suffered

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.

Activities

Against taxes

From March 2010, the Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates actively in the initiative offered by Confcontribuenti, a Confederation of Italian taxpayers.

Confcontribuenti supports the Movimento Libertario and Giorgio Fidenato in his battle against withholding tax.

The Movimento Libertario wants to create a critical mass of owners and tax payers to launch peacefully Italian protests against the government tax collectors, like the case of Tea party protests US.

From April 2010, the Movimento Libertario collaborates and participates actively in the initiative offered by 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 Ultima Thule.it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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

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 and actual positions expressed in his long career policy on economy and individual rights.

About the withholding tax

For the Movimento Libertario against the withholding tax, see Giorgio Fidenato#Against the withholding tax.

Selling our vote

In view of the ruling on the case of Giorgio Fidenato on withholding tax, the Movimento Libertario have presented in Pordenone (for the 2010 regional elections in Italy on March 28–29), an initiative entitled: "Selling our vote".

The intent was to sign a contract for the candidates in the elections in which they undertook to support, in every way and publicly, the battle of Fidenato against the withholding tax.

The supporters and members of the Movimento Libertario undertook to support in public the political candidates signers, guaranteeing to them the participation of Italian libertarian voters to the regional vote.

This initiative builds on the initiatives of the Americans for Tax Reform by Grover Norquist.

Norquist and his association against taxes are committed to supporting the various candidates in American elections only after obtaining from them a substantial commitment to fight for tax cuts.

In the 2010 regional elections in Italy, the Movimento Libertario have supported the Italian Radicals regionals candidates with their (Bonino-Pannella List), signers of the contract "Selling our vote".

Confcontribuenti, as an independent association from the Movimento Libertario, created another very similar contract of commitment to political candidates in Italian regional elections 2010, to support the tax cuts.

Seminary on Vivien Kellems

Between 25 and 27 June 2010, the Movimento Libertario held in Bergamasco (AL) (Province of Alessandria) a three days of seminar and studies with theoretical learning and practical training on principles of libertarianism in economy, policy and culture in the contemporary society.

This first seminar was entitled "Vivien Kellems. The rigor of the ideas, the power of action" and it will dedicated in honor of American entrepreneur Vivien Kellems and her battle over withholding tax in 1948 that she has described herself in her book Toil, Taxes and Trouble.

This historical fact became a model for the Italian libertarian farmer Giorgio Fidenato to start his civil disobedience and Tax resistance against the Italian withholding tax.

The Kellems case was presented also by Murray Newton Rothbard in his book For a New Liberty:

The event have seen the presence of many Italian libertarian personalities of journalism, culture and communication, law and Austrian economy in the role of teachers for the participants.

Enrico Montesano

In 2009, Italian actor Enrico Montesano joined the Movimento Libertario and supports the Giorgio Fidenato's battle to abolish withholding tax. Montesano is against the Single Fund for the Performing Arts allocated by the government to finance Italian theater and film productions. He supports the proposition that the "work of an artist is judged at the box office and is the public that decides."

See also

• Agorism
• Anti-Federalism
• Anti-statism
• Capitalism
• Classic Liberalism
• Euroscepticism
• Free Market
• Individualism
• Lasseiz-faire
• Liberism
• Minarchism
• Non-interventionism
• Non-Violence
• Non-voting
• Objectivism
• Voluntaryism

External links

• Official Italian website of the Movimento Libertario
• YouTube Channel of the ML
• ML Channel on Justin.tv Web Television channel of the ML for conferences, public activities and debates.
• Leonardo Facco Editore site of publishing house of the Movimento Libertario