The maintenance of private property as a cornerstone for the preservation of political freedoms. Around this nucleus, but not only, revolved the thought of Ernesto Rossi, anti-fascist politician and journalist who died in 1967. A thought that today has been recovered and summarized in a book edited by Gianmarco Pondrano Altavilla and published by Rubbettino, entitled of a liberal heretic".
An anthology of Rossi's numerous writings, taken above all from Mario Pannunzio's "Mondo", which clearly shows how the liberalism that permeated the journalist's vision of the world had a very original matrix, and developments. A liberalism, as mentioned, which does not stop at a purely economic level, but which transcends it, becoming a civil and political "method of freedom".
Rossi was a lucid, and at times acerbic, critic of the "case of Italy": "An ordered society like termite anthills doesn't satisfy me at all", he wrote. In addition to the always rigorous analysis, Rossi was capable of withering and bitter aphorisms, which became part of our culture. Celebrate his considerations on industrialists ("I never worried that they earned too much, I worried that they stole too much") and on democracy: "We are democrats because we are pessimistic towards the rulers".
