Is fascism far-right?

[Joe Haydn]

Conservatives typically draw strength from (historically anyway), the military, the religious establishment, the economic elite and historically, the upper middle classes (recent realignments aside, historic fears of "the plebs coming to kill them").

Nothing to say on the topic at hand, but this seems totally wrong to me. Especially from a historical perspective, the upper middle class/bourgeoisie is usually the group most associated with liberalism, no? At least that's how I've always been taught and what everything I've ever read has said.

[Joe Haydn]

Conservatives typically draw strength from (historically anyway), the military, the religious establishment, the economic elite and historically, the upper middle classes (recent realignments aside, historic fears of "the plebs coming to kill them").

Nothing to say on the topic at hand, but this seems totally wrong to me. Especially from a historical perspective, the upper middle class/bourgeoisie is usually the group most associated with liberalism, no? At least that's how I've always been taught and what everything I've ever read has said.

Depends on the century in question, the location and their position relative to the establishment (part of or working to overthrow it). 

So members of the establishment (however you define it) can't be liberals? What if they are avowedly liberal men and women striving for an avowedly liberal cause, such as the abolition of slavery or the expansion of the suffrage?