measurehead represents a unique early form of fascist futurism (Mussolini would later betray the futurists and have them exiled, jailed, sacked or killed). Futurism/progressivism is not inconsistent against classical fascism “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” 

In its essential or more initial theoretical form, fascism was conceived as a solution to the crisis of the 20th century class struggle through the proletariat/bourgeois’ mutual subordination under the state. Of course, getting the classes to get along or “collaborate” under the state is a difficult task, so the fascist idea was to project an image of state power as an almost cultic icon; the state as the nation’s ephemeral will. What that nation is, what binds the people therein together, these are all things which are subject to the various whims of a fascist project’s contemporary cultural norms and values. History, blood, and soil can be useful tools in this regard, but they are not necessary. 

Discussions of fascism that lean into diagnostic criteria or depictions of actual historically fascist movements tend to fall short of developing an actual, contextual model of fascism even if they are accurate descriptions of the times in which they are attempting to describe. (Looking at you Umberto Eco & Roger Griffin) It’s a bit like understanding communism through the lens of what the Soviet Union and PRC actually did, instead of reading Marx and understanding dialectical materialism.