If not individualism, then what? Some form of collectivism? Mussolini had nothing but contempt for individualism and liberalism. Here are some choice quotes from the Doctrine of Fascism (1932):

"If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state."

"If liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government."

There is also a long section in The Doctrine of Fascism that lays it all out:

REJECTION OF INDIVIDUALISM AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STATE

In this part of the doctrine, he explains why freedom is bad and must give way to the state.

I know all this seems unfair, comparing your ideals of collectivism to fascism, but the plain, ugly truth is that fascism was a collectivist ideology. The other such ideology was communism, which gets a better rap than facsism.

While the Nazis burned down Europe and Russia and deliberately exterminated millions of undesireable people, Communism killed even more during the "century of collectivism" and for some reason people still look at it as a possible solution to our problems. It seems there is no quantity of corpses large enough to get people to see that all collectivist solutions end in calamity.