Italian elites saw the factories occupation as a near-revolutionary moment that was not seized

Evidence

In Luigi Einaudi’s words from 1933: “Th e situation would really have become revolutionary if the leaders of the socialist movement had exploited the revolt of the factory workers and moved to an assault on the regime” (Einaudi 1933, 332). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1679

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Italian fascism emerged by consent of liberal elites, not military seizure — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 354; Italian economic elites saw worker cooperatives as a revolutionary threat to the bourgeoisie; Workers’ factory occupations in Milan operated as self-governing territories without police presence (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Transformism organically absorbed revolutionary personnel into the Italian ruling class #expands (0.85)
• Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent #corroborates (0.80)
• Italian Red Biennium workers built self-governed production institutions across land and factories #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186
• Italian Communists read mounting repression as proof of revolution’s approach #corroborates (0.78)