The author Jerry Pournelle was infamous for his fascist views.
Here he offers his insights.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/debates/history.html
Rather than abolish the various institutions of the classes, Fascism seeks their cooperation: each will be represented in the Grand Council of the State. Army and Church and Unions and managers and great land owners and small holders and peasants and day laborers will all have their views represented in a Council that presents recommendations to The Leader, who will choose the proper advice and act for the good of all; and if he does not, he can be replaced by that Council (as in fact Mussolini was: he was deposed by his own Council, and the King sent a Colonel of Carabinieri to inform him that he was no longer Il Duce, but a private citizen, and Italy would surrender to the Allies.)
Fascism, in other words, is a form of “socialism” that seeks to end class warfare by requiring the classes to work together, the rich to help the poor (preferably voluntarily) while all are bound by loyalty to the State, which needs to earn that loyalty by providing glory and honor and grand buildings and great institutions, great celebrations and victories in war.
Fascism, in theory, is a critique of liberalism that doesn’t shy at inverting liberalism’s core value-- that the legitimate State stems from individual rights, and the desire to preserve individual rights in the face of would be tyrants,
