From the March 22, 2004 Wikipedia page on Fascism:
Mussolini clearly defines himself on the Left and Collectivist:
“…Fascism has taken up an attitude of complete opposition to the doctrines of Liberalism born in the political field and the field of economics….let it be pointed out that all political hopes of the present day are anti-Liberal… “Granted that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy…it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority, a century of the left, a century of Fascism; for if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism (Liberalism always signifying individualism) it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism, and hence the century of the state… “The Fascist state is an embodied will to power and government; the Roman tradition is here an ideal of force in action. “…If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are thousand signs that point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.
This is the definition of Fascism from its creator, Premier Mussolini as quoted in “Challenge to Liberty”, Herbert Hoover, Scribner and Sons, l934, pg 66-67 quoted from Encyclopaedia Italiana, Vol. 14. Translation of the Political Quartely, London.
From the March 22, 2004 Wikipedia page on Fascism:
Mussolini clearly defines himself on the Left and Collectivist:
“…Fascism has taken up an attitude of complete opposition to the doctrines of Liberalism born in the political field and the field of economics….let it be pointed out that all political hopes of the present day are anti-Liberal… “Granted that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy…it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority, a century of the left, a century of Fascism; for if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism (Liberalism always signifying individualism) it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism, and hence the century of the state… “The Fascist state is an embodied will to power and government; the Roman tradition is here an ideal of force in action. “…If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are thousand signs that point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.
This is the definition of Fascism from its creator, Premier Mussolini as quoted in “Challenge to Liberty”, Herbert Hoover, Scribner and Sons, l934, pg 66-67 quoted from Encyclopaedia Italiana, Vol. 14. Translation of the Political Quartely, London.