I've been googling around looking at the various manifestations of 'fascist.' I've come to believe
the murky word is thrown around all too casually.
In the course of googling, I came across a compelling
piece from the Laissez-Faire Electronic Times but was
unable to post it as an article on FR because someone
doesn't like Orlin Grabbe (I guess). So I posted it on
my blog. You might enjoy it. That's
http://gcruse.typepad.com/ 'Under the Axe of Fascism' by a marxist, Gaetano Salvemini, provides some wonderful vignettes of socially progressive Italian Fascist day-care centers, etc. The author appears to be outraged that the Fascists did their dirty deeds under the cover of 'progressivism'. It makes me smile! ;^)
The Hildebeast would have fit like a glove into the vanguard of Il Duce's state apparatus!