There are numerous translations The office published Italian goverenment translation from the period says a century tending to the right a Fascist century The Fascist negation of socialism democracy liberalism should not however be interpreted as implying a desire to drive the world backwards to positions occupied prior to 1789 a year commonly referred to as that which opened the demo liberal century History does not travel backwards The Fascist doctrine has not taken De Maistre as its prophet Monarchical absolutism is of the past and so is ecclesiolatry Dead and done for are feudal privileges and the division of society into closed uncommunicating castes Neither has the Fascist conception of authority anything in common with that of a police ridden State A party governing a nation totalitarianly is a new departure in history There are no points of reference nor of comparison From beneath the ruins of liberal socialist and democratic doctrines Fascism extracts those elements which are still vital It preserves what may be described as the acquired facts of history it rejects all else That is to say it rejects the idea of a doctrine suited to all times and to all people Granted that the XIXth century was the century of socialism liberalism democracy this does not mean that the XXth century must also be the century of socialism liberalism democracy Political doctrines pass nations remain We are free to believe that this is the century of authority a century tending to the right a Fascist century If the XIXth century was the century of the individual liberalism implies individualism we are free to believe that this is the collective century and therefore the century of the State It is quite logical for a new doctrine to make use of the still vital elements of other doctrines No doctrine was ever born quite new and bright and unheard of No doctrine can boast absolute originality It is always connected it only historically with those which preceded it and those which will follow it Thus the scientific socialism of Marx links up to the utopian socialism of the Fouriers the Owens the Saint Simons thus the liberalism of the XIXth century traces its origin back to the illuministic movement of the XVIIIth and the doctrines of democracy to those of the Encyclopaedists All doctrines aim at directing the activities of men towards a given objective but these activities in their turn react on the doctrine modifying and adjusting it to new needs or outstripping it A doctrine must therefore be a vital act and not a verbal display Hence the pragmatic strain in Fascism it s will to power its will to live its attitude toward violence and its value See Hope this helps