Only to people primed to support fascism. Not to those most likely to be immediately terrorized by fascism.

This is inevitable in liberal society. It compulsively moves to fascism. It has to because its foundation is in imperialism, which happens to pit majority white populations against others and spawns white supremacy and chauvinism to justify why we're bombing Vietnam or Yemen or invading Poland or Manifesting Destiny, and why the police simply must torture or execute unarmed teenagers for resisting or mouthing off to them, and why locking up entire generations of people of color instead of investing in jobs and education is what a Free Society does.

Stopping all the above would require the sort of indelicate street violence that liberals cannot abide. These policies don't come about because of the moral failings of individual pigs or policy makers. They come about because of how our society is organized at a fundamental level: the private ownership of property, the law of value, economic expansion. Meaning to stop them we'd take on the economic basis on which the state rests.

Did you ever wonder why police evolved out of strike breakers and slave catchers? This is the answer: it's the economy. So inevitably struggles by working people against the economic structure is an actual credible threat to the state in its entirety.

Nazi sympathizers are already ideologically primed to be fascist. The Liberal equivocation between all radical movements obfuscates their true class character. Fascists are not, despite the horseshoe theory, the same as communists. They represent a radical labor aristocrat and petty bourgeois movement dissatisfied with mismanagement by the old bourgeoisie, and seeks to replace and correct their imperialist efforts in ways more directly beneficial to them. So they may criticize capitalism as " crony capitalist" or "globalist", but they are not interested in the abolition of class society and private property, nor are they opposed to aggressive colonization which is the necessary compulsion of privately owned commercial property.

Consider this in the contact of the progressive liberal defense of Obama's aggressive foreign policy/regime change/drone strikes, support for brutal right wing dictatorships, complacency about mass incarceration, and acceptance of the chief executives network of secret torture prisons.

Fascism has been crucial to the functioning of liberal societies for decades, its mostly been directed at the colonial periphery. But eventually it comes home to roost during periods of domestic crisis.

This is why bashing fascists is important.

Fascism is not an aberration of liberalism, it's its most concentrated form, the shallow humanist pretenses of the enlightenment stripped away to expose the naked class interests they've hidden. For centuries liberalism has promised all forms of equality and opportunity but delivered a permanent war economy directed at the third world abroad and native people and people of color at home, to extract super profits in a necessary attempt to stave off the tendency for the rate of profit to fall.

This compels us to bash. It's the only option against a system founded on genocide, slavery, and colonialism that not only just hasn't stopped because of bad people but cannot stop because of its basic economic character--a system that always intensifies these things.

Contradictions and antagonisms will intensify, regardless. Capitalism can't help but propel itself from one death-labor camp to the next (we ban sweatshops here, they move them there). People cannot be ground to dust forever. Better to fight back than resign ourselves to inevitable genocide. Better to organize this fight into a revolutionary movement that can deal a death blow to societies that default to naked displays of mass violence so Bill Lumberg's stocks can go up .25%