Futurist Political Party

The Futurist Political Party (Italian: Partito Politico Futurista, PPF) was an Italian political party founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti as an extension of the futurist artistic and social movement. The party had a radical program which included promoting gender parity and abolishing marriage, inheritance, military service and secret police. The party was also strongly anti-clerical and anti-monarchy, and considered the whole current order to be "absolutely infested, reactionary, ineffective, stupid and often criminal".
The party aligned with the fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini, but Marinetti personally grew distasteful towards politics after the failure in the 1919 elections. By 1920 the party had merged with the Italian Fasci of Combat. However, the futurists remained at odds with the core of the fascist movement, and Marinetti along with others resigned at the Second Congress of the Fasci in May 1920 over Mussolini's attempts to court conservative landowners. Marinetti additionally considered the principles of anti-clericalism and republicanism to have been abandoned. Nonetheless, the futurist movement continued to influence the fascist movement through their newspaper, Roma Futurista.
After the March on Rome and its failure, Marinetti once again took interest in the fascist movement. He believed that it could serve as a moment of "awakening" for the fascist movement that would rekindle its radical principles. The departure of the conservative bourgeois Italian Nationalist Association enabled the rise of national syndicalists and futurists within the underground fascist movement. Marinetti thus joined the National Fascist Party where he has become a very influential figure.
== Platform ==
=== Democrazia futurista ===
The ideas and political proposals of the futurists, expressed in Roma Futurista, were collected by Marinetti in the volume Democrazia futurista in 1919, which includes:
* Abolition of marriage and of the traditional family. Children should be able to be raised by the state with funds obtained from a "filiatico tax", a tax on free love.
* Bureaucratic decentralization and abolition of seniority in state careers.
* Abolition of the right of succession.
* "Technical government without a senate and with an excitatory", i.e. a youth council formed by a dozen citizens under 30 years elected by direct universal suffrage.
* Social ownership.
* Land reform that draws on the ideas of Henry George.
* Pensions for war veterans.
* Gender equality in employment and participation in political life.
* Abolition of military service and establishment of a light army of volunteers.
* Establishment of "schools of courage and patriotism".
* Prison reform and abolition of political police.
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