He was a socialist and a cooperative member of Reggio Emilia, he shared and expanded the idea of “integral cooperation” by Camillo Prampolini, that is the idea of cooperation as an autonomous economic form, to replace the liberal economic system.
From 1912 until 1926 he was General Secretary of the National League of cooperatives, bringing innovations and development. In the early years of the fascist era he tempted a way of mediation with Mussolini but, in 1929, he was included in the list of subversives (it was the period of dissolution of cooperation by fascists.)

In 1907 he wrote:
“the work organised on the basis of cooperation is waging war against private speculation, not only to obtain improvements in its conditions of dependence but also to begin, with a practical and real action, to contend for the economic monopoly of society”.
“Marxism postpones the work of transformation and reconstruction to after the conquest of social management: it makes cooperation happen day by day”

Contributions as an author:
• Cooperazione e socialismo -questo breve saggio si trova nel volume di Walter Briganti, Il Movimento cooperativo in Italia 1854-1925, pp.216-221
• Cooperazione e resistenza -questo breve saggio si trova nel volume di Walter Briganti, Il Movimento cooperativo in Italia 1854-1925, pp.230-233

Author’s reference text:
• Oggi e domani nel pensiero di un cooperatore, Como, 1922.