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

I share your aversion to xenophobia, fascism and Musk, but how does your analysis fit with capitalists' traditional interest in increasing the supply of labour, as to suppress wages? This is reserve army of labour-basics, as recently described in www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

This is a great point and I remember reading in (I think?) Harsha Walia’s book that harsh border policies are meant to be ineffective. You step up the rhetoric and impose a few headline grabbing policies while continuing to allow desperate workers to trickle into the country at the right rate.