Yeah, it's reductive. But they really are pretty similar.
Violence against "undesirables" is shared. In fascism it's whatever minority they decided is the worst one this decade, in capitalism it's the poorest/homeless people who just happen to be mostly that minority.
Privatization of public goods is completely shared. All of history's fascist governments privatized everything as much as neoliberals do.
The warrior death cult mythology that fascists like to build for themselves is also baked into capitalist pop culture. Action movies are loaded with the shit.
So you can see where people are coming from when they say they're the same. But I'd also say that the liberal obsession with rules does separate them from fascists. They might both want homeless people to die in the street, but the liberals won't go do it themselves, because that'd be breaking the rules. A fascist government wouldn't bother with a legal process, they'd find some aspiring murderers and tell them they wont be arrested for it.
Yeah, it's reductive. But they really are pretty similar.
Violence against "undesirables" is shared. In fascism it's whatever minority they decided is the worst one this decade, in capitalism it's the poorest/homeless people who just happen to be mostly that minority.
Privatization of public goods is completely shared. All of history's fascist governments privatized everything as much as neoliberals do.
The warrior death cult mythology that fascists like to build for themselves is also baked into capitalist pop culture. Action movies are loaded with the shit.
So you can see where people are coming from when they say they're the same. But I'd also say that the liberal obsession with rules does separate them from fascists. They might both want homeless people to die in the street, but the liberals won't go do it themselves, because that'd be breaking the rules. A fascist government wouldn't bother with a legal process, they'd find some aspiring murderers and tell them they wont be arrested for it.