Abstract
Autore:
Montani Guido
Titolo:
"Il federalismo di Mario Albertini nel secolo XXI"
Mario Albertini (1919-
1997) was one of the leaders of the European
Federalists and a political philosopher.
In keeping with the Ventotene Manifesto and
Altiero Spinelli’s advocacy for a constituent
assembly, Mario Albertini laid the cultural
and strategic foundations for Europe’s
citizens to call for a European Parliament
elected by universal suffrage, and the creation
of an economic and monetary Union
with its own fiscal resources and a democratic
government. As a political philosopher,
on the basis of the federalist and cosmopolitan
ideas of Immanuel Kant, Albertini
showed how traditional ideologies – liberalism,
democracy and socialism – cast off
the myths of the nation state and exclusive
sovereignty, making the values of freedom,
political equality and social justice possible
for the whole of the human community.