First issue of L ’ Unità Europea ( European Unity , 1943 ) | © European Federalist Movement 2021
Primo numero della pubblicazione L ’ Unità Europea ( 1943 ) | © Movimento Federalista Europeo 2021
essential aim of the struggle the old one , that is the conquest of national political power - and who will , albeit involuntarily , play into the hands of the reactionary forces by letting the incandescent lava of popular passions solidify in the old mould , and resurrect the old absurdities ”, on the other hand those who “ will see as a central task the creation of a solid international state , will direct the popular forces towards this end and , even having conquered national power , will use it in the first line as an instrument for achieving international unity . “
No longer a distant horizon , therefore , but an urgent call to take sides politically and a concrete project to build the future here and now , as Eugenio Colorni reiterated in his Preface to the Manifesto in January 1944 : “ The ideal of a European federation , prelude to a world federation , while it might have seemed a distant utopia even a few years ago , presents itself today , at the end of this war , as an achievable goal and almost within reach ”.
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