Why the European Parliament has a name Italian CommunistAltiero Spinelli? Its name is besides the EU Archive, the Spinelli Institute, and “The Spinelli Group” is inactive active among Euro MPs. Why is the Ventotene Manifesto of its co-authorship indicated as the main ideological paper of the proposed changes in the EU? In what direction is the European Union heading with a patron He called Among another things, to abolish national states and abandon private property, he refused to God, and at the same time he was the founder of the EU federalisation and associate of the European Parliament?
"The Ventotene Manifesto" by Altiero Spinelli (and Ernesto Rossi) was listed as the only thought paper in "The White Paper on the future of the European Union" from 2017. It is now identified as a leading origin for Treaty changes in the EU (HERE You will learn our detailed analysis of these). The Manifesto was created during planet War II erstwhile Spinelli was imprisoned by the fascist government on the title island of Ventotene.
The name of Altiero Spinelli (d.1986), a little-known Italian communist in Poland, appears above the entrance to the main building of Brussels seat of the European Parliament. But not just there. That's his name he wears. EU Archives, there is besides Spinelli Institute, and among Euro MPs inactive working Spinelli group. All the rapporteurs/authors of the current EU treaty changes are part of the formation in the EU Parliament, whose mission is federalist changes. It is good to know that even on the board of the formation there are besides Poles: Radosław Sikorski and Danuta Hubner.
“Even our darkest moments are inactive brighter than the days spent by our ancestors in Ventotene prison,” says the “White Book...” of the EU. Inexorably, in Article 13, the Polish Constitution recalls:
The existence of political parties and another organizations referring in their programmes to totalitarian methods and practices of the operation of Nazism, Fascism and Communism, as well as those whose program or activity assumes or permits racial and national hatred, the usage of force in order to gain power or influence state policy, or provides for the secrecy of structures or membership.
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What was the Crocodile Club?
EU Fathers' website lists 21 names. But why was Spinelli so distinguished in the Union? The above - mentioned page does not dwell much on his views or his résumé. It is portrayed mainly as a political prisoner and as an “unrelenting federalist”. It is said that "from 1970 to 1976 he was a associate of the European Commission and in 1979 he was elected associate of the European Parliament".
Spinelli then founded the alleged Crocodile Club, where a plan for the Treaty of the European Union was prepared. Then it went smoothly: On 14 February 1984, the European Parliament adopted his proposal by a large majority and approved the “Proposal of a Treaty establishing the European Union”, the alleged “Plan of Spinelli”.
However, let us extend the above “official” biography slightly. Spinelli not only joined the Italian Communist organization as a 17-year-old in 1924 (whose was a associate until 1937), but the reasoning and communist concepts is steeped in all his “Manifest”. Spinelli was imprisoned by Mussolini's government for 10 years. Ventotene Island was a retreat for respective 100 opponents of Fascism.
It was here that Spinelli met his future wife Ursula Hirschmann, an activist of the socialist and later federalist movement and a feminist who is besides listed on the website “EU Pioneers” (they married Spinelli after her first husband died). It was Ursula (of judaic and German origin) that elevated “Manifest” outside Ventotene and distributed it in Italy. "The manifesto was widely read by the Italian opposition against the Nazis," states the EU website.
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Manifesto steeped in Communism
A comprehensive analysis of Manifesto from Ventotene published the Institute Ordo Iuris. What's inside this document? In the EU's view, a imagination of the federalisation of Europe has been outlined on respective pages, but not only. Altiero Spinelli, yes, calls, among others, for the creation of a supranational state. In his opinion, national states are the main threat to Europe's peace:
The issue that must be resolved first, due to the fact that without it, any advancement in another areas will only appear to be apparent, is the abolition of the division of Europe into sovereign national states. - We read.
Spinelli is the founder of the old communist thought of internationalism, depreciating the notion of “nation” and even utilizing the concept of “ideology of national independence”, claiming that “the absolute sovereignty of national states has caused the desire to dominate”. It besides condemns the pursuit of self-sufficiency of a given country. Spinelli besides confesses class struggle. As a actual communist, he wants to form a revolutionary organization that waits for a revolutionary minute and a revolutionary crisis.
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Without God, private property, but with dictatorship, if necessary
As part of the “parasitic caste”, which co-creates the condemned conservative society here, the church hierarchy is mentioned, among others. The author speaks disrespectfully of religion and God, utilizing the word "Vatican council with fascism", he advocates the "pure secular character of the state". And between the lines, he sanctiones dictatorship and force as a means better than democracy:
Thanks to the dictatorship of the revolutionary party, a fresh state is being created and with it a new, actual democracy.
Democratic political methods are ballast in a time of revolutionary crisis.
Worse still, Spinelli was a supporter of private ownership:
Private property is to be liquidated, limited, corrected or expanded depending on the situation, not dogmatically, for principle. This guidance is simply a natural component in shaping European economical life, free.
In order to respond to our needs, the European revolution must be socialist, that is, to have the goal of freeing the working class and creating more humane surviving conditions for it. However, the steps taken must not be guided by a purely doctrinal rule that the private ownership of the material means of production must be abolished and can be tolerated only temporarily at the time of accomplishment of the objective.
Spinelli besides advocates nationalisation of monopolistic companies.
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...and yet revolutionary optimism
All these issues will find an easy solution within the European Federation – concluded Spinelli... He marvels at his optimism, for he is not afraid of the threat of despotism by applying all the above measures. Surprisingly, he inactive has the freedom and improvement of humanity on the banners:
It should not be feared that specified a revolutionary government will make into a renewed despotism. This may happen if a surrender society is built.
Spinelli's optimism, however, is simply a communist illusion. However, should we not anticipate to push the stronger and "equal" that we already see in the present Union, and what we know from the times of the dictatorship of the proletariat in our country? Communism served mainly communist elites from the Polish United Workers' Party.
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"Other ideologies arise artificially, as a consequence of conscious human creation, and are the work not of the full society, but of individual individuals or at most of their tiny teams... If the individuals making up the ideology are united with their society and aptly sense its needs, then the ideology created by them will be consistent with the improvement line of civilization and can rapidly adopt itself in society, acting as an ideology which was created naturally. ...
However, it may besides be different. erstwhile individuals forming ideology are separated from the society in which they live, the ideology created by them will be contrary to the natural line of improvement of civilization and then either it will not be accepted by society, or it will destruct the structure of civilization, whether it will yet be partially or completely assimilated by civilization. A akin phenomenon occurs erstwhile ideologies formed within another civilization are penetrated into society.... The situation is different in the case of ideologies that are not in line with the needs of society's improvement or due to the fact that it is besides forward-looking, crossing the essential stages of development", says Józef Kossecki at work "Basics of Modern Comparative discipline on Civilizations” (pp. 89-90). Let it be a neat punchline on Spinelli's imagination and... his crocodiles (more about the Treaty changes in the EU we wrote HERE).
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