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I am mostly talking about where we currently are, now that fascists are in power. People will start having to make that mental decision. 'Do I keep my head down, do I stand up and die, or do I just join the fascists and try to have a good life?'
Neoliberalism doesn't have any bearing on how things go next, IMO.
While that's true that doesn't necessarily mean a person is a fascist if they keep their head down. What I mean is that neoliberals are more susceptible to becoming fascists who terrorize other people.
Although, I think there are a lot of people who have consumed a decent chunk of anti-fascist propaganda. These people are effectively awkwardly stuck as neoliberals. They've rejected fascism, but they still can't bring themselves to really be socialists or even progressives.
Getting these people to reject neoliberalism is crucial to building grassroots movements to build a political revolution. We need people to rise up against the systems that have enabled this fascist takeover. As long as a majority of people have neoliberal ideas in their heads, they're unlikely to do that. People need to learn that systemic change and wealth redistribution are essential. Otherwise we are going to be victims to a larger fascist movement later and/or climate change even if we somehow defeat this fascist dictatorship.
So not only is neoliberalism how we got here, as neoliberalism leads to fascism, but rejecting neoliberalism is going to be crucial to getting rid of the current fascist regime. It's not enough to only be against fascism, we also need to be for something too. And neoliberalism is getting in the way of being for something for a lot of people.