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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. | 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]])<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=57 Movimento Libertario Clan libertarians] Italian map of the presence of local clan supporters ML.</ref>, Board of Auditors, and the Enclave of Essays. | |||
The Statute of the Movimento Libertario<ref name="statute"/> 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.<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3635:tesseramento-2010-contiamo-su-di-voi&catid=1:latest-news ''Membership 2010!. We count on you!''] Retrived on December 31, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5528:libertari-non-si-nasce-si-diventa&catid=1:latest-news ''Libertarians are not born, they become!''] by Board of Directors of the Movimento Libertario. Retrived on May 23, 2010.</ref> | |||
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=== | |||
Movimento Libertario in its founding act declares and acknowledges libertarian principles as internals to its Statute<ref name="statute" />: | |||
* The [[Political freedom|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<ref name="manifesto" />. | |||
===Purpose=== | |||
The Movimento Libertario, as political movement, is founded with the aim of reducing government to its lowest terms, in order to provide space for free interaction between individuals, or community consensus of individuals, who seek redress of their market needs <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="aboutus" />. | |||
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 <ref>Leonardo Facco. [http://digilander.libero.it/cssc/liborg/documenti/Programma_politico.pdf "Political Program of the Movimento Libertario"]</ref>. | |||
The Movimento Libertario Statute<ref name="statute" /> considers necessary for Italy: | |||
* 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; | |||
* 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]]: | |||
{{quotation| ''"I define [[anarchist]] society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights."'' - [[Murray Newton Rothbard]] in ''Society and State''}} | |||
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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''"<ref name="manifesto" />. | |||
====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.<ref name="policy">Leonardo Facco. [http://digilander.libero.it/cssc/liborg/enclave/APPENDICE.doc" Appendix to Manifesto Libertario"], 2005.</ref> | |||
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]].<ref name="policy" /> | |||
It is in favor of a return to the gold standard and to a [[free banking]] system.<ref name="policy" /> | |||
Does not recognize the legality and legitimacy of the [[WTO]], [[IMF]], [[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.<ref name="policy" /> | |||
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.<ref name="policy" /> | |||
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.<ref name="manifesto" /> | |||
The Movimento Libertario recognizes the need for an emphasis on clarity of information to the public on the free choice of consumers.<ref name="policy" /> | |||
=====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, [[Libertarian Republican|libertarian-republican]] Congressman [[Ron Paul]]<ref>[http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2339 Movimento Libertario Who is Ron Paul?.] Summary sheet on Ron Paul and his political program in view of the U.S. presidential election of 2008 and why the Movimento Libertario shares his policy proposals.</ref>. | |||
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 <ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="policy" />; | |||
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 <ref name="policy" />. | |||
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. Retrived on May 6, 2010.</ref> | |||
=====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<ref name="policy" /> | |||
=====Civil Rights===== | |||
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.<ref name="manifesto" /><ref name="policy" /> | |||
The movement supports a depenalization of light drugs (such as [[cannabis]]); supports the individual right to [[prostitution]] and [[abortion]].<ref name="policy" /> | |||
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 <ref name="policy" />. | |||
=====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 <ref name="policy" />. | |||
=====Science===== | |||
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<ref name="policy" />, and freedom of private scientific research as long as it respect the natural human rights and it does not use public money. | |||
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 <ref name="policy" />. | |||
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>. | |||
===Activities=== | |||
====Interlibertarians==== | |||
{{See also|Interlibertarians}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||