I’d amend that to say fascism is what happens when capitalists allow those things to proliferate, then get scared that people will fight back. While fascism is indeed a petit-bourgeois ideology that arises from that class’s reaction to capitalist crisis, it’s important to remember that it is the bourgeois who are fascism’s beneficiaries and who are the first to foment it during crises.
I’d amend that to say fascism is what happens when capitalists allow those things to proliferate, then get scared that people will fight back. While fascism is indeed a petit-bourgeois ideology that arises from that class’s reaction to capitalist crisis, it’s important to remember that it is the bourgeois who are fascism’s beneficiaries and who are the first to foment it during crises.