IDO MOVEMENT FOR CULTURE

Material
The cultural distrust toward the sport by the dominant ideology in worker’s movement in XX century – just underlined on international historiographical debate – invested the oriental martial arts in very drastic measure on the beginning of the Seventies in Italy. The article examines the experience of some associated citizens to promove oriental martial arts in a national organization of sport for all linked to Left’s parties in reference to political and cultural context of period.
Methods
The sources of article are: Acts of Italian Parliament; UISP (national association of sport for all) archive documents; oral sources; periodical press and newspapers.
Results of research
The research allows to enlight the development of martial arts in Italian civil society.
Conclusion
The Italian citizens in Sixties and Seventies associated in partnership for their passion in the oriental disciplines introduced with their action tied up demands to the diffused mentality, to the custom, to the culture and the sensibility of the masses. They constitute an interlocutor of great interest for political institutions, not a simple drive belt of ideologies elaborated by the political parties.