Montelibero

Montelibero (MTL) is an international decentralized movement founded in the spring of 2021 (link to declaration). The movement is based on the principles of Non-Aggression (NAP) and a consensus on the need to create, implement and popularize public practices aimed at increasing the guarantee of personal sovereignty and freedom of association for all capable participants with the localization of these efforts in Montenegro.

Unlike the eponymous MTL-fund, which is a commercial organization aimed at supporting this movement, the MTL movement itself, based on its own declaration, cannot have any clear organization, management and official representatives, being simply a certain direction of application of the efforts of many independent actors united by common principles and ideas, no one can speak on his behalf as a whole, but everyone, as long as he shares a common declaration of principles and acts in accordance with it ( what determines the consensus of other members of the movement) can join him and act for his success as he sees it.

The movement was created by analogy with FSP in New Hampshire, fundamentally developing their approach and relying on several social hypotheses, which are based on the following considerations:

1. Social evolution, although it is an extremely complex and multi-level process, not completely understood by anyone and not completely controlled by anyone, yet amenable to purposeful efforts and changes by groups of enthusiasts, allowing it to be directed in one direction or another with varying degrees of success and awareness.

2. These changes are critically dependent on the sovereign level of decision-making, which is located today on the scale of recognized state entities, whose institutions and political and legal practices play a decisive role in these changes, explaining why some societies are freer and more prosperous than others, and why these statuses are actively changing throughout the life of even individual generations - it is the policy of individual states (politicians and bureaucracy behind them) and its changes that critically affect these processes on their territory, expanding or reducing the space of individual freedom and civil society space.

3. The possibility of evolution of certain countries and their political regimes directly depends on the type of this regime - in an autocracy, dictatorship or monarchy, the ability of an ordinary person from the street to influence the decision-making process in the state is much lower than in a parliamentary liberal democratic republic. It is also determined primarily by the political culture - the prevailing social consensus in the country, the ideological attitudes and practices common in society that form the demand that politicians are trying to satisfy.

4. Changing the public consensus is extremely difficult, it requires huge efforts and resources, which primarily depend on the number of people whose attitudes determine the totality of this public demand and consensus. To popularize certain social innovations, technologies and values among tens of millions of people is much more difficult, expensive and longer than among tens and hundreds of thousands of people, therefore, in addition to the peculiarities of the political regime, it is the number of citizens of the country that is the determining factor affecting the realism of any social changes in society.

5. Montenegro is a unique country on the planet, at the same time successfully combining many of these factors (a democratic republic and a small number), and also compares favorably with other similar microcountries by the diversity of its ethnic composition, where the titular nation is not an absolutely dominant majority of citizens, and therefore the increase in foreigners in such a society will not be striking and is guaranteed to cause a hostile response (otherwise, the titular ethnic group would no longer allow the loss of its absolute majority, moving even earlier to closing borders and forced assimilation , while another cosmopolitan group of foreigners - ethnic minorities, has a chance of getting lost among several major ethnic groups).

The combination of the above considerations explains why, with the aim of trying to develop the most free and advanced society, Montenegro was chosen, and not one of the other several hundred other existing sovereign countries. Whether the above hypotheses turn out to be reliable or not, the time and practice of the movement will show, which currently has several hundred participants (which can be considered in the base case by the total number of subscribers of all MTL media platforms of the same name) and several dozen activists.

Their specific activities and approaches can vary significantly, to achieve them