Garibaldi e l’Europa. Libertà, pace e federalismo

Garibaldi and Europe. Freedom, peace and federalism

Abstract

Garibaldi’s political ideal formed with the influences of Saint-Simon and Mazzini was then consolidated with the contents of democratic and socialist internationalism. His humanitarian socialism not contemplating class struggle and materialism was based on social and political reformism. At the same time Garibaldi had always expressed a strong “pro-European” and pacifist sentiment testified by his various proposals (including the Memorandum to the Powers of Europe, of 1860) to establish a federation of democratic European states as a guarantee for continental peace. With these objectives he presided over the International Peace and Freedom Congress of Geneva, in September 1867.