“Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.”
David I. Kertzer“Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.”
David I. Kertzer, Ritual, Politics, and Power“I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.”
David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe