April 1,
2025
The Ventotene Manifesto
It
seems to me that the Ventotene Manifesto
has nothing to do with the European Union that is being attempted today.
In the Manifesto, a new model of communism is opposed to Nazism and Stalinism.
Today, in Europe, no one is proposing Nazism, Stalinism, or even a new model of
communism. Instead, everyone takes for granted a model of parliamentary
democracy.
The Europe that is being built today is the one that someone like Spinelli would
have defined as a (false) bourgeois democracy, rather than a popular democracy
as envisioned in communist ideals.
Our problems today are different.