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.

  • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    So, fascism isn't coherent, but one of its features are ramping up the exploitation of the proletariat by increasing concrete surplus labor value- longer hours, quicker work, worse conditions in the workplace and at home- as the primary mode of increasing profits like early industrial Britain instead of the way modern capitalism increased profits through the extraction of abstract surplus labor value. And it order to do that it needs a stronger state to keep the workers in line, and in order to do some incoherent central planning.