Actually, I think it is fair to describe fascism as right wing, because I don't agree that your identification of the right with American liberatian style politics is sufficient. The original right wing - those delegates who sat to the right of the podium in the French National Assembly of 1789 - were conservative: royalist, clerical, even feudalist in outlook. The left, across the room, believed themselves to be republican, anti-clerical and rationalist. Now every variety of fascism has always endorsed highly conservative social policies, whatever its economic strategy, and however radical its organisation. Moreover, the founding myths of fascist movements tend to look backwards to an earlier golden age. So in this sense fascism lies in the grand tradition of the right much more clearly than modern libertarianism, which is a bit sui generis. Having said, that, I agree that the definition Reynolds quoted is appallingly superficial, and entirely misses the main points about fascism, which you so accurately describe.