he great importance of tradition in the records,
language, customs and rules of human society. Man without a part in
history is nothing.

For this reason Fascism is opposed to all the abstractions of an
individualistic character based upon materialism typical of the
Eighteenth Century; and it is opposed to all the Jacobin innovations
and utopias. It does not believe in the possibility of "happiness" on
earth as conceived by the literature of the economists of the
Seventeenth Century; it therefore spurns all the teleological
conceptions of final causes through which, at a given period of
history, a final systematisation of the human race would take place.
Such theories only mean placing oneself outside real history and
life, which is a continual ebb and flow and process of realisations.

Politically speaking, Fascism aims at being a realistic doctrine; in
its practice it aspired to solve only the problems which present
themselves of their own accord in the process of history, and which of
themselves find or suggest their own solution. To have the effect of
action among men, it is necessary to enter into the process of reality
and to master the forces actually at work.

7. The Individual and Liberty.

Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception is for the State; it is
for the individual only in so far as he coincides with the State,
universal consciousness and will of man in his historic existence. It
is opposed to the classic Liberalism which arose out of the need of
reaction against absolutism, and had accomplished its mission in
history when the State itself had become transformed in the popular
will and consciousness.

Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular
individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the only true expression of
the individual.

And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of the
scarecrow invented by the individualistic Liberalism, then Fascism is
for liberty. It is for the only kind of liberty that is serious--the
liberty of the State and of the individual in the State. Because, for
the Fascist, all is comprised in the State and nothing spiritual or
human exists--much less has any value--outside the State. In this
respect Fascism is a totalising concept, and the Fascist State--the
unification and synthesis of every value--interprets, develops and
potentiates the whole life of the people.

8. Conception of a Corporate State.

No individuals nor