Italian capital consolidated into national class organizations in 1920

Evidence

In March 1920 the Confi ndustria had situated itself as a national organization, complete with its own general political line and tactics. Industrialists could now think of themselves as a national political power— an “industrialist class” (Il corriere della sera, March 9, 1920) with a centralized membership. Seventytwo associations were federated, with 11,000 members. All large industries, and threequarters of the mediumand smallscale industries, adhered to this association. Th at August the agriculturalists had done the same: they founded La Confederazione Generale dell’Agricoltura, which united large and small agricultural property and industry. It was a new “political body of battle and resistance to coordinate all the forces of property and agriculture industry” (Bachi 1921, 302). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 574

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the later analysis of how the 1920 occupation triggered capital’s coordinated counterattack, and parallels capitalist class consolidation described in interwar Britain. — connects to: Italian capital organized itself into a unified national class to fight labor. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 574

Broader Connections

• Italian capital organized itself into a unified national class to fight labor. #expands (0.95) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 574