In fact , a revolutionary crisis is here imagined to be imminent , and therefore a “ European revolution ” as possible , which “ must be socialist ”, according to a line of general reform of society described in some detail in the third and last part of the Manifesto ( written mainly by Rossi , except for the concluding pages where Spinelli ’ s pen returns ): private property abolished , limited or extended on a case-by-case basis within the framework of the formation of a European economic life ; private monopolies combated also through large-scale nationalisations in strategic sectors of collective interest ; land reform to make farmers widely owners ; industrial reform to extend worker ownership through cooperative management or worker ownership ; provisions for young people to “ minimise the distances between the starting positions in the struggle for life ”; roughly equal average wages for all occupational groups ; and even the prefiguration of a kind of universal basic income : “ a series of provisions which unconditionally guarantee to all , whether they can work or not , a decent standard of living , without reducing the incentive to work and save ” so that “ no one will be forced by misery to accept jugular work contracts any longer ”.
Rossi in exile in Switzerland ( 1943-45 ) | Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies