Are you thinking of Umberto Eco’s fourteen features of fascism? It’s from a 1995 essay:
A good read. Eco opens with how he know about fascism -- he was a kid in Italy when WW2 happened, and talked about how he won a child essay writing contest about the New Fascist Man, something he dwells on. But then he struggles to nail down what a New Fascist Man really is, and delves into his list.
Had to read it in college, worth the extra paragraphs.
The cult of tradition for example. If they really whorshipped traditions, facist movements wouldnt regularly destroy their whole environment and society, uprooting all that was before.
Take ISIS and Nazi Germany, they pretended to be pro Traditions, but at the same time destroyed all that had come before completely and utterly.
I found the "states regressing to tribal society und pressure while wielding a industrial economy" to be the better description of the problem.
Though in that criteria, ISIS was not that facist, as they never had the debt loaded industrial economy that defines a full scale non-local regression.
Side reference, but of course historian Eric Hobsbawm is the central name here, who wrote "the invention of traditions" about how this happens.
The Fascists of Italy were all about casting themselves as returning Italy to the glory of Ancient Rome, right down to the basic symbolism of the party.