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However, Gentile and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism and — more veiled — some aspects of Italian conservative Catholicism.

They wrote, " History doesn't travel backwards.

The fascist doctrine has not taken De Maistre as its prophet.

Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry.

" They further elaborated in the political doctrine that fascism " is not reactionary the old way but revolutionary.

" Conversely, they also explained that fascism was of the right, not of the left.

Fascism was certainly not simply a return to tradition: it carried the centralised state beyond even what had been seen in absolute monarchies.

Fascist single-party states were as centralised as most communist states, and fascism's intense nationalism was not found in the period prior to the French Revolution.