I know it always supports big business. And it’s a reactionary force that people in power turn to when things go badly for the workers and they think of revolt.
But fascism also demands genocide and killing of millions of people and that would only hurt the capitalists, no? Because these are people who would otherwise be working and increasing profit used to increase productivity etc etc etc. But if you kill them you reduce the labor force and thus drive up the price of labor, reducing your profits, and thus what you can spend on improving productivity? And other countries which didn’t do so would become more advanced, leaving you behind.
Hey, for what it's worth, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to jump down your throat here, it's just I've heard this expressed before as if the majority of explicit leftists in the U.S. aren't working class and are therefore not connected to the working class, which just simply isn't the case. I don't disagree that 'the left' as a coherent ideology and political movement in the U.S. doesn't exist.
I'll give the Varn vlog a listen, he's a good egg but I'm always of the opinion that he gives too much historical credence to the importance of these internecine leftist conflicts to the development of the left, when the much broader issue is always one of access and control. It doesn't matter whose theory you adhere to if no one is ever going to read it outside of the cadre, and there is never going to be a significant cadre until the best funded and maintained circus in history begins to fail, and I have no real idea when that will be as the circus is the only thing that gets any level of funding, even at the expense of the production of 'the bread' these days. Entertainment is the only freedom, and control of it's creation is the grail we all seek to hold.
Best of luck at work. Tough shift, but I believe in you!