“The Doctrine of Fascism” was written in 1932. There are in fact two separate authors that wrote it. The first author, Mussolini had fought in the war and had been a firm socialist in his early years. The second author, Giovanni Gentile, was detached from those opinions. He originally was a liberal who spent time in the war lecturing on philosophy. It appears the trait these men initially shared was a strong sense of nationalism. Both men were fascists, but they had very different political backgrounds.
By definition, Fascist is a political philosophy, a movement, or a regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and
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This idea backed up and evident in his writing. Mussolini tends to speak of the state rather than the nation. Mussolini stated, “That statism lay at the heart of the movement.”
While the Liberals feel that government action is needed to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. They believe it is the duty of the government to diminish the social ailments and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. They insist that the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Liberal policies generally highlight the need for the government to solve problems. Fascism expresses opposition to liberalism, Communism, Democracy and Individualism.
Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual. In the article, it identifies the enemy is liberalism, not socialism. Where Fascism reasserts the rights of the State reaffirming the real essence of the individual. The position of Fascism that liberty worth having is the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State.
The article differentiates the liberal self-centered life of selfish momentary pleasure with the spiritual attitude of fascism. The movement demanded self-sacrifice in the place of