From the above survey of the theories and plans of the Fascists, it is easy to understand their idea of the State. Briefly, the Fascist conception of the State is authoritarian, totalitarian and •nationalistic. They have repudiated democracy, individualism, liberalism «and popular sovereignty.
In his book, “Fascism”, Mussolini wrote that the Fascist State is, first of all, “anti-individualistic”, for “the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity.
The Fascist conception of the State is all- embracing: outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State-a synthesis and unit inclusive of all values,—interprets, develops and potentialises the whole life of a people. “Everything within the State and nothing outside it.”