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Fascism is both capital's savior and it's boogeyman, whichever is convenient at the time. It is it's savior when class conflict sharpens in a capitalist society, and elements of the ruling class realize that the only way to save their skins is through a strong state that enforces class-collaboration while throwing some scraps to the workers at the same time through welfare programs; the capitalists therefore disempower the workers through the destruction of their fighting organizations (like revolutionary unions) while simultaneously creating state organized workers programs and "unions" (guilds) to alleviate said working class's suffering in a minimal fashion.

At other times, Fascism is used as a boogeyman by elements of the ruling class in their electoral combat with other elements of that same class. "Fascism" in this case is used as an appeal to the working class for unity with a section of the capitalists against the other capitalists, all in the name of "saving democracy". This obsession with saving democracy is very sly; it serves as a way of tricking the workers into thinking that there is a democracy to save in the first place, as if they are not under the dictatorship of capital already.

In a word, fascism safeguards capitalist rule, through the methods I previously described, during times of economic crisis, and therefore safeguards the profits of the capitalists, though said profits may be diminished (I should note that it is not called fascism these days, but rather social democracy, "socialism", or some other PC catchphrase). Anti fascism, however, is a regular tactic of the capitalists to defame their opponents in elections, all the while tricking the workers into supporting their own slavery. Anti fascism is synonymous with anti-authoritarianism in this instance, but I can assure you that it only serves to tighten the grip of capital's dictatorial rule through the sham that is bourgeois democracy.