In May 1898 , workers in Milan organized strikes and protests to demonstrate against the government . The riots were brutally repressed : troops fired on demonstrators , and Filippo Turati was arrested , accused of inspiring the riots . Labriola fled to Geneva in order to elude arrest . There , he taught at University of Geneva and worked with Vilfredo Pareto . Labriola was expelled from Switzerland in the same year and moved to Paris . In Paris he met the socialists Georges Sorel , Hubert Lagardelle and Paul Lafargue
brutally repressed
Bava-Beccaris massacre
Arturo Labriola