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Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵

It all started when Tesla workers tried to unionise in 2017. Musk fiercely pushed back against the effort to unionise, and won. Today, Tesla is the only un-unionized auto manufacturer in the US.

Naturally his battles with organised labour drove him into the arms of the right. As he became closer to right wing figures in the US and around the world, he became more convinced by their arguments on migration. Why?

Because every smart right winger in the world knows that neoliberal economics don’t win elections. Their ultimate aim is corporate welfare for big business, tax cuts for the rich, and the crushing of unionists and protestors. But they can’t say that out loud.

The only way the right can win state power is to acknowledge the deep suffering that has been created by decades of rising inequality, and blame this suffering on some ‘other’ - migrants, criminals, deviants etc. That othering is, of course, the prerequisite for fascism.

💯 half way through your book "Vulture Capitalism" it's very, very good, thank you 👍🏼

Is this also true for neoliberals that just want to grow the pie? Openly supporting far-right policies while secretly pushing policies that improve the world?