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, loc. 577