Note that the phrasing of "capital owners and fascists" is deliberate. Capitalism is not the only oppressive and authoritarian ideology. Fascism can hide in nominally progressive-looking ideology, too. I'm especially looking at some interpretations of communism here.

And to complete that thought: genuine solidarity looks like bottom-up organizing, among everyday people (the 'workers') for everyone's needs, and *not* like following an esteemed leader, even if that leader seems to speak the language of solidarity.

@joepie91 i think it's very important to stress that "worker" is a temporary, and thus precarious position.
capitalism excludes the unemployed from society (something that social capitalism tries to mitigate).

but this status is an important political pressure force on on the workers, because at any point, somebody from the reserve army of labour could replace them.

fascism likes to exclude disabled people from society. which sounds like a terrible euphemism… many countries which are on all other accounts democratic do this. Germany and Austria tried to distance themselves from that particular part of their history, and swung all the way to the other direction, and so there companies now get to reap the fruits of the labour of disabled people who earn a few € per week for it.

and finally there's people who are ostracised socially for whatever reason that makes then different (immigrants, queers, people travelling communities), they often have a hard time finding work, but regardless of physical and mental ability don't even fit into the reserve army of unemployment category. these undesirables of society will serve fodder when the whatever fascism decides is the first target group is "dealt with".

so, say I'm trying to say is: "workers", however temporary their ability and other attributes that makes them desirable to capitalism or to fascism, need to build solidarity across all these lines, lest they want to watch members of their family, friends, social circle or themselves be sucked into one of the other categories, and be excluded from society.

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