 Furthermore, (new) farmers were opposed to the new rural trade unions which wanted to control the agrarian economy .The middle-class decided that they required their own defense against the socialists, because the government could not contain them.As a result, a series of middle-class defense leagues were formed .The first squadrismo was thus one which was nationalist and anarchist, founded on the traditions of the ‘fasci d’azione revoluzionari’, which was a phenomenon of citizens .