"When the workers first occupied the factories, Mussolini bethought himself of ‘Red Week.’ This time [summer of 1920] he concluded, social revolution was really at hand. Eager as always to ride the wave of the future and still posing as a left-wing extremist, he applauded the strikes. But as soon as it became apparent that he had guessed wrong once again, he executed an abrupt about-face."
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S. William Halperin, Mussolini and Italian Fascism, Princeton: NJ, D. Van Nostrand Company (1964) pp. 32-33
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