Is fascism far-right?

[The Mikado]

Mussolini explicitly renounced his former socialism in and talked quite extensively that socialism's skepticism of World War I was handicapping Italian national glory. His rise to power is characterized by years of low scale civil war in which fascist squads would violently attack and kill Italian Communists who were in the midst of an abortive attempt at revolution. The King and the Italian establishment made peace with Mussolini's rise as better than socialism, and when fascists murdered the leader of the Italian socialist party, indicating Mussolini's government was dictatorial, the older right did not desert him.

At every step of his rise, Mussolini labels himself an enemy of the left, in the most violent ways. He made peace with the old established order, including the king, and even undoes the older Italian state's amti-clericalism by making peace with the Church and Pope after six decades of Papal condemnation of Italy's very existence. Cozying up to monarchy and the Catholic Church? Smashing labor unions? Imperialist racial wars abroad? Foundation of power is shooting Communists all over Italy in political violence? Of COURSE fascism is a right wing movement. It self-consciously identified as one and saw its foes as the left.

I really feel that the Italian Fascist movement should be the center of this conversation. The first self-consciously fascist movement and the first movement to gain success should by definition be the standard fascism is analyzed by.