Property owners experienced labor insurgency as a near-death ritual needing blood purification.

Evidence

Tasca eloquently captured the counterrevolutionary spirit: “Th ey [the industrialists] received the jolt [scossa] of [one who,] having bordered death and now returning to life, feels like a new man” (Tasca 1965, 129– 30). He added, “the blood that they will have spilled will appear to them as a ritual of an expiatory ceremony, necessary for the purifi cation of the violated temple of private property” (ibid., 143). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 577

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Tasca’s framing — expiatory ritual purifying the ‘violated temple of private property’ — reframes fascist violence as sacred class ritual, not just political brutality. This religious register of capitalist self-defense is genuinely hard to absorb in one pass.
• XREF: The near-death reborn-man psychology recurs in Mattei’s account of austerity as tested discipline; connects to the shock-therapy logic of later neoliberal doctrine.