The ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini
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1. Overriding aim - "brotherhood of the people". Believed in the equality of human beings and races. Disliked imperialism and xenophobia.
2. Believed next stage for the world was domination by nations - people occupying their own nation-states.
3. Did not want a federal Italy - thought it might retain old foreign rulers. He wanted central government with elected local authorities. Democracy and guarantee of individual rights.
4. "Bottom up" unification - people rise up against oppressors. Italy had to be united by its own efforts. This was his ideal, as he was not absolutely committed to republicanism.
5. Greater equality, end to poverty, taxation proportional to wealth, free and compulsory education, and guaranteed women's rights.
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Giuseppe Mazzini: Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian revolutionary, born in Genoa in 1807. He was a member of the secret society of the Carbonari. At the age of 24, he was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting a revolution in Liguria.