Italian officials framed the war as an ideological catalyst for state solidarity

Evidence

A pamphlet written by two bureaucrats of the Italian Ministry of Military Assistance and War Pensions, Leo Pavoni and Diego Avarelli, echoed this same belief: “Th e war has been a war of ideas. Out of its miseries and catastrophes a luminous path has been traced for the ends of the State … [the war] has laid the foundations of the distinguished edifi ce of human solidarity” (Ministero per l’Assistenza Militare e le Pensioni di Guerra 1919, vi- vii). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader austerity-as-class-weapon project: this is the ideological foundation that interwar austerity doctrine would invert.