The crucial thing about fascism is that it's about power and style, not "politics".

On a left-right spectrum what can reasonably be termed fascism can crop up at various places, not just the extreme right. In fact, if anything, insofar as it belongs on that spectrum, it's more likely to have its centre of gravity somewhere round the centre.

It's a mistake to see the use of clumsy repression as the essential element in fascism - in modern society, with state of the art technology, it is increasingly possible to exercise total control, far exceeding anything which traditional dictatorships ever had, without needing to resort to those methods. Of course, they are always there to be used when required, and are so used.