Mussolini has a good refutation of this type of thinking in the Doctrine of Fascism...it is a mistake to fall into the same reductionisms of the Liberals by pretending as if the virtues and vices of a state can be simply reduced to the form of government. The form of government ought to be treated pragmatically since it is something that is indifferent per se to the end of good governance: "Fascism (although, for contingent reasons, it was republican in tendency prior to 1922) abandoned that stand before the March on Rome, convinced that the form of government is no longer a matter of preeminent importance, and because the study of past and present monarchies and past and present republics shows that neither monarchy nor republic can be judged sub specie aeternitatis, but that each stands for a form of government expressing the political evolution, the history, the traditions, and the psychology of a given country. Fascism has outgrown the dilemma: monarchy v. republic, over which democratic regimes too long dallied, attributing all insufficiencies to the former and proning the latter as a regime of perfection, whereas experience teaches that some republics are inherently reactionary and absolutist while some monarchies accept the most daring political and social experiments."