- Young Italy is a brotherhood that believes in progress and that Italy is destined to be one nation.
- In order to achieve this goal we must rely on a unity of effort so that we may have a nation of free men and equals
- Young Italy is Republican because only a Republic insures a free and equal community
- Education and insurrection are the means by which a Republic will be formed. Insurrection must be conducted by means of national education
- The best way of insurrection is by guerrila bands which brings together the people into a warlike deed
- God has given us this land which we must reclaim from domestic and foreign tyrannys. God has given us the power.
- We will not stop until we achieve out goals
Sunday, February 6, 2011
"Young Italy" by Giuseppe Mazzini
Young Italy was a society dedicated the unification of Italy. The following are beliefs found in the oath of Young Italy:
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The tragedy of the nationalist movement which swept through Europe (not only Italy) in the mid- nineteenth century is that, whilst it forged bigger units of power, it never superseded tribalism but itself became mega-tribal, culminating in two world wars. When the UN was founded after WW2 it failed to provide a structure to take us out of tribalism into a truly global climate of thought - hence the cold war and our present uneasy muddle.
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