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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.

[1/3] Read your thread and I, mostly, agree. I think capitalism and capitalists, in theory and at times in practice, prefer a stable market environment provided by democratic liberalism. This is particularly true of your regular, everyday capitalist (moms and pops, urban and suburban citizen, etc.)

[2/3] At the same time, and this is something we’ve seen in the US, market players (i.e. capitalists of all stripes: financiers, venture capitalists, university administrators) are overly focused on short-term gains.

[3/3] This, along with the assumption that fascists are rational (in the capitalist sense) actors, provides time and space for fascists to bulldoze.