Fascism is deeply rooted in the philosophy of Actual Idealism (the spiritual mind creates reality), which borrows its elements from ancient and modern idealists. This paper traces the development of idealist thought and its contribution to the formation of Actual Idealism, from Heraclitus' idea of Logos, Plato's Theory of Forms, Kant's crucial mediation, and Hegel's Absolute Idealism. While Gentile is widely regarded as a follower of Hegel, I argue that the doctrine of Fascism essentially denies Hegel's dialectic and the idea of an ethical state governed by rational institutions, using the fall of Fascist Italy to demonstrate the failure of Gentile's philosophy to withstand dialectical reality.
Mahesh Bari (Mon,) studied this question.