The Tipping Point in Mussolini's Life

Mussolini had been successful in ensuring that much of the party followed his more moderate policy path, but it would prove impossible to completely remove the radicals from their position within the party. The tension between these two groups would come to a head in June 1924 when a squad led by Amerigo Domingi would kidnap Giacomo Matioti and beat him to death. This was the act of fascist violence that would prove to be the tipping point, even though the fascist squads had never fully stopped their reign of terror against anti-fascists. After the Matiodi murder, many fascists, which had been critical players in Mussolini's control of the party, had been forced to

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