Libertarian Movement (Italy)
Libertarian Movement Movimento Libertario | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Leonardo Facco |
| Founded | 24 September 2005 (launched as cultural movement) September 2007 (founded as political movement-party) |
| Headquarters | Via Lino Zanussi 3, 33170 Pordenone |
| Ideology | Anarcho-capitalism Anti-federalism Economic liberalism Euroscepticism Non-interventionism |
| International affiliation | International Alliance of Libertarian Parties Interlibertarians |
| Colors | Gold |
| Website | |
| www.movimentolibertario.com | |
The Libertarian Movement (Italian: Movimento Libertario, ML) is a political party in Italy which espouses a typically libertarian platform, namely minimal regulation of society, free 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 founders are Leonardo Facco and Giorgio Fidenato. Fidenato left the movement on April 15, 2020 after a dispute arose from Fidenato's endorsement of the Covid related policies by the Italian government.[1] The party has as its symbol two black hands shaking and a yellow background in reference to its membership in the anarcho-capitalist.
ML was started as a cultural association on 24 September 2005 in Treviglio with the writing of the Manifesto and Constitution of the Libertarian Movement by Facco. Two years after, ML was transformed into a party by Facco, Fidenato and Marcello Mazzilli. The party's goal is to defend life, liberty and property of each individual within a strong free market system.[2] The party has its registered office in the municipality of Pordenone.
The party supports both the Padanian and the Venetian independence movements.[3][4] Among other things, Facco is editor of the pro-independence and libertarian online newspaper L'Indipendenza.[5] Both Facco (who has been a leader of the libertarian faction within Lega Nord in the 1990s) and Fidenato have participated in events and demonstrations organized by separatist parties as the Padanian Union,[6] the Alpine Padanian Union[7] and Veneto State.[8][9] In November 2011, Facco proposed the creation of an Independentist Libertarian Movement (MLI) which would support all the separatist movements and parties active around Italy.[10] In the run-up of a conference of free independentists organized by L'Indipendenza,[11] Fidenato, who had been long in favour of the dissolution of Italy, endorsed the proposal.[12][13]
Ideology[edit]
ML takes inspiration from the classical liberalism of John Locke and the Founding Fathers of the United States conjugated to the 19th-century American individualist anarchist strand of Benjamin Tucker, Henry David Thoreau and Lysander Spooner.[14] On the economy, ML takes inspiration from the Austrian School and the theoretic formulation of philosopher and economist Murray 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 (minarchism) theorized by Robert Nozick and the Objectivism philosophy described in novels by Ayn Rand. ML refers to freedom of association of the anarchist federalism, anarcho-capitalist free market society and to the Jeffersonian limited government of classical liberalism.
ML holds an anti-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 decentralization and fiscal federalism as opposed to the Italian highly 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.[15] A party slogan says: "Neither right nor left, nor centrist. Simply free is better".
Political actions[edit]
Against the withholding tax[edit]
Battle to sow GMO maize[edit]
Giorgio Fidenato and ML favor the free cultivation and commercialization of GMO seeds and food. They support 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.
In this respect, Fidenato and his Federated Farmers (Italian: Agricoltori Federati) were subjected to threats and acts of violent vandalism in their headquarters by an anti-globalization and environmentalist group for their position on GMO maize.[16][17][18][19] The Italian Radicals referred in Parliament on the issue.[20]
Publications[edit]
Through his Leonardo Facco Editore publishing house, Facco issues two magazines: Enclave and I Fogli di Enclave. The Scientific Committee of Enclave includes Walter Block, David D. Friedman, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, John Hospers, Antonio Martino, Pierre Lemieux, Tibor Machan, Jan Narveson, Wendy McElroy, Ralph Raico, Robert Sirico and Thomas Szasz.[21]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Fidenato Ha Lasciato Il Movimento: Dimissioni Annunciate Ad Aprile". 1 October 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ↑ "The libertarian way to happiness", L'Opinione, by Elisa Borghi. Retrieved on May 18, 2007. Interview to Marcello Mazzilli spokesman of the Movimento Libertario.
- ↑ "Facco: "Per l'Indipendenza Servono Azioni Forti, non Consulte"". 30 November 2012.
- ↑ "Il Nord Est che vuole separarsi si raduna a Jesolo". 22 May 2012.
- ↑ "Chi Siamo | L'Indipendenza". Archived from the original on 2012-04-09. Retrieved 2012-04-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ultime Notizie Online | Agenzia Giornalistica Italia | AGI". Archived from the original on 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2012-01-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Unione Padania Alpina: assalto al grano padano | Bergamo.Info giornale d'opinione a Bergamo". www.bergamo.info. Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Veneto: Monumento All'Evasore Fiscale | Movimento Libertario". www.movimentolibertario.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "«Italia al collasso Portiamo in Slovenia i nostri risparmi» – Cronaca – Messaggero Veneto". messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it. Archived from the original on 2014-03-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Indipendentisti e Libertari". 16 November 2011.
- ↑ "Confederazione Liberi Indipentisti: Una Proposta | L'Indipendenza". www.lindipendenza.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Libertari Ed Indipendentisti, Una Scelta Di Liberta | L'Indipendenza". www.lindipendenza.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Disponibili a Partecipare Alla Conferenza Indipendentista". 13 February 2012.
- ↑ The political theory of libertarian political, cultural and economic references of the Movimento Libertario
- ↑ "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 camera.it.
- ↑ "Best Slot Game On Bovada – leonardofaccoeditore.com".
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