And in 1924 Th e Times praised Fascism as a solution to the ambitions of the "Bolshevist peasantry" in "Novara, Montara, and Alessandria" and "the brutal stupidity of these folk." Th e article continued, "For two years and a half, agricultural strikes, so virulent that the crops were left to perish in the ground, were the order of the day. Th e petty leaders of the Communists, more stupid even than their followers, desired to make here the fi rst experiments in socalled collective management" ("Th e Dissident Fascisti," Th e Times, June 17, 1924, 15).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1723