Wealthy Italians pressed the state to showcase welfare as an antirevolutionary device

Evidence

Even for wealthy and propertied classes, the state responding in a way that avoided the worst possible break from the capitalist order was a clear necessity. In 1920, Vittorio Cottafavi, a wealthy property owner and MP of the Liberal Constitutional group, wrote to Nitti, who had become prime minister, to stress the strategic need to publicize the social role of the state as an antirevolutionary antidote: To draw near the workers to the state so that they can see in it a friend and a protector . — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 270

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wealthy elites saw social-welfare state publicity as an antirevolutionary necessity; Italian officials declared the liberal state of law superseded by a welfare-state conception — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 237; Italian welfare arrived by executive decree to appease the working class quickly (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Wealthy elites saw social-welfare state publicity as an antirevolutionary necessity #corroborates (0.95)
• Italian officials declared the liberal state of law superseded by a welfare-state conception #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 237
• Italian welfare arrived by executive decree to appease the working class quickly #complicates (0.75)
• Postwar Italian social insurance pooled worker, employer, state, and local aid funding #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1660
• Welfare benefits once granted to masses become politically irreversible #expands (0.70) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3826