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Ok socialist pals, I've seen this a couple times tonight so I'm speaking up: we gotta stop saying "liberals are capitalists so they'll inevitably side with the fascists". Maybe this was true in Marx's time, I dunno, but it just ain't true today and it does us all a disservice to believe it.

First, if you talk to your average liberal, they fucking hate Trump and are explicit that he is a fascist and that's what they don't like. A lot of them are also lukewarm at best about capitalism tbh, but even if they love capitalism, no, mostly they are not siding with Trump and Elon over us.

But it's also a misapprehension of capitalism and fascism. Capitalists want the economy to be capitalist because they think it's more efficient and produces better outcomes. I think they're wrong, but that's an economics debate you can have. Fascism, though, is about *power*.