“Dear friends, Anyone who read the truly treacherous letter addressed by Mazzini to the representatives of the workers at the Rome Congress should have understood, if he could still doubt until now, that this congress was convened at the instigation of Mazzini in order to carry out a whole revolution, not revolutionary, against the system of government now existing in Italy, but reactionary against new ideas and new aspirations, which, since the glorious and richly experienced uprising of the Paris Commune, began to cause noticeable ferment among the proletariat and youth of Italy...”