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The '''Libertarian Movement''' ({{lang-it|Movimento Libertario}}, '''ML''') is a [[list of political parties in Italy|political party in Italy]]. It espouses a typically [[libertarianism|libertarian]] platform: minimal regulation of 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. Its leaders are [[Leonardo Facco]] and [[Giorgio Fidenato]]. The party 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-capitalism|anarcho-capitalist]] movement.

ML takes inspiration from the [[classical liberalism]] of [[John Locke]] and the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]] conjugated to the 19th-century [[Individualist anarchism in the United States|American individualist anarchist]] strand of [[Benjamin Tucker]], [[Henry David Thoreau]] and [[Lysander Spooner]].<ref name="theory">[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=55 ''The political theory of libertarian''] political, cultural and economic references of the Movimento Libertario</ref> On the economy ML takes inspiration from the [[Austrian School]] and the theoretic formulation of philosopher and economist [[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 ML does not officially identify itself in programmatic positions and spectrum of the American left-libertarians. ML also includes some aspects from the American model of liberty theorized by [[Robert Nozick]] ([[minarchism]]) and the [[Objectivism (Ayn Rand)|Objectivism]] philosophy described in novels by [[Ayn Rand]]. ML refers to [[freedom of association]] of the anarchic federalism, anarcho-capitalist free market society and to the Jeffersonian limited government of classical liberalism.

ML holds an anti-[[European federalism|federalist]] stance on [[European integration]]. It is against the transformation of the [[European Union]] into a [[federation]], preferring the voluntary accession and the unanimity of a [[confederation]]. The term "[[federalism]]", as it is used by ML, means [[decentralisation|decentralization]] and [[fiscal federalism]], as opposed to the Italian highly [[centralisation|centralized]] state. Party icons include [[Ferdinando Galiani]], [[Cesare Beccaria]], [[Filippo Mazzei]], [[Emerico Amari]], [[Carlo Cattaneo]], [[Gaetano Mosca]], [[Vilfredo Pareto]], [[Luigi Einaudi]], [[Bruno Leoni]], and [[Gianfranco Miglio]]. Despite being officially a party, ML has spoken in favor 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> A party slogan says: "Neither right nor left, nor centrist. Simply free is better".