Community Movement

Community Movement Movimento Comunità
Leader	Adriano Olivetti
Founded	1947
Dissolved	1961
Newspaper	Comunità
Ideology	Liberal socialism Fabianism Federalism
Political position	Centre-left
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The Community Movement was an Italian political organization founded by Piedmontese progressive entrepreneur Adriano Olivetti in 1947.^[1]

Olivetti had previously established a cultural group, which only subsequently began a political activity at local level, entering in municipal and provincial elections. The Community fought against particracy and Jacobin centralism, aiming to replace them with a federal union of local communities. The movement tried to merge both liberal and socialist ideas, opposing both conservatives and communists.

The movement successfully engaged the 1958 general election, Olivetti becoming MP for Piedmont, but the history of Community was dramatically stopped in 1960 when its founder died of heart failure.

Community's political ideas disappeared from Italian political debate for thirty years and its only MP, professor Franco Ferrarotti, joined the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.

Election results

Chamber of Deputies

Election	Votes	%	Seats	Leader
1958	173,227 (#10)	0.59	1 / 596	Adriano Olivetti

Senate

Election	Votes	%	Seats	Leader
1958	142,897 (#10)	0.55	0 / 246	Adriano Olivetti

References

1. Paola Bonifazio (2008). Narrating Modernization: Documentary Films in Cold War Italy (1948—1955). p. 7. ISBN 978-0-549-81458-0. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

Sources

• Olivetti Foundation
• Olivetti's life (it.)
• Adriano Olivetti: the red entrepreneur (it.) La Storia siamo Noi – RAI