Hierarchy is the essence of Fascism. In the Fascist State the individual docs not exist alone but in groups in the economic and other aspects of national life. Each group of individuals formed, according to the functions which they perform in the nation, an organisation called a Corporation. Thus the nation is a hierarchical organism of three parts, the individuals at the bottom, the corporations in the middle and the State at the top and as Mussolini said, “beyond the State nothing”. The individuals and the corporations are relative and subordinate to the State from which they derive their rights, powers and being. Corporations were of all kinds— economic, professional, etc. Their officers were appointed from above, by the State, not elected from below by their members.<\/p>