Mussolini's fascist state was established a decade before Hitler came to power and served as a model for him. In essence, Mussolini invented the modern fascism, so one can assume that he knew what he was talking about in the following quotes. Note the first in particular:—

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

"We become strong, I feel, when we need no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."

"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."

"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity"

"Fascism is a religious concept"

Fascism does not require racism. That was a variation of Hitler's. But both took control of the press.

"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag - a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."       --Adolf Hitler

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."       -- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister.

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."         -- General William Westmoreland, United States Army.

And then,

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
                                  -- Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop.

Respectfully submitted for your consideration.

Don Firth