`  :A key problem is that I prefer dealing with current vews of current fascism as well as the historical  while some prefer to focus only on the first examples of fascism, and others seem to think that anything ``authoritarian`` is ``right wing`` viewing American usage as less relevant for some reason.  The pejorative usage also seems to enter in all of this  frankly I suspect the desire to categorize ``fascism`` as though it formed a single entity is ill-suited to this article.  If we are to deal with all the views of Fascism, we are pretty much stuck with the ``left, right or centre`` trichotomy.   `