Scroll down the linked page about 52% to view this excerpt:
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http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffma.../mussolini.htm
THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM
BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)
(ONLY COMPLETE OFFICIAL TEXT ON THE INTERNET)
(This article, co-written by Giovanni Gentile, is considered to be the most complete articulation of Mussolini's political views. This is the only complete official translation we know of on the web, copied directly from an official Fascist government publication of 1935, Fascism Doctrine and Institutions, by Benito Mussolini, Ardita Publishers, Rome, pages 7-42. This translation includes all the footnotes from the original.)
.....A party governing a nation “totalitarianly" is a new departure in history. There are no points of reference nor of comparison. From beneath the ruins of liberal, socialist, and democratic doctrines, Fascism extracts those elements which are still vital. It preserves what may be described as "the acquired facts" of history; it rejects all else. That is to say, it rejects the idea of a doctrine suited to all times and to all people. Granted that the XIXth century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the XXth century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, <h3>a century tending to the " right ", a Fascist century..... </h3>
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IMO, the context around which the reference to "the right" appears, fully supports the premise that neo-fascism is a condition located on the extreme right of the political spectrum, the antithesis of marxism, communism, socialism, all traditionally associated with extreme left ideology.
An explanation for invading Iraq, in the first place, with no adequate post invasion planning as "icing on the cake" for this comparison:
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http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?...izarro_history
...As Umberto Eco put it, the fascist insistence on action for its own sake means that "it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation." In this worldview, the instincts of the fascist leader are always superior to the logic and reason of puling intellectuals...
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