should aim at using power in the service of freedom , whereas the nation state was the enemy of freedom .
The fight for the freedom of the individual and of society had led Spinelli to break up with the Italian Communist Party as early
First and oldest cover version of the text published in the Manifesto in the Bulletin of the “ Popolo e Libertà ” ( People and Liberty ) Movement ( no . 1 , June 1943 , pp . 8-26 , entitled Guidelines and featuring the caption at the bottom “ From Ventotene , October 1941 ”) with no division into chapters , just into paragraphs ( from 1 to 20 ) | Source : Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies
Cover of the second printed edition of the Ventotene Manifesto contained in No . 1 of the “ Quaderni del Movimento Federalista Europeo ” ( Notebooks of the European Federalist Movement ), entitled “ Manifesto del Movimento Federalista Europeo ” ( Manifesto of the European Federalist Movement ), with an introduction dated 29 August 1943 . It is here that the text acquires its first subdivision into four chapters ( which later became three in the last version of the Manifesto ): I ) The Crisis of Modern Civilisation ; II ) Post-War Duties – European Unity ; III ) Post-War Duties – The Reform of Society ; IV ) The Revolutionary Situation : Old and New Trends | Source : Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies
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