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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...

Thank you. To add, there is probably a sectoral difference. The article describes how construction often uses contracted labor making it harder to regulate, therefore an easier place to work for immigrants w/o papers. I'd guess the same for care work contracted by private households.

Then next election another right winger can win again saying the border policies aren’t effective enough. It creates the perfect conditions for exploitation because you have a m mass of workers terrified of deportation who then don’t make any trouble for bosses.