Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.
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Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.

Summary

Parallels between Henry Ford and Elon Musk illustrate their transformative roles in automaking alongside troubling political affiliations.

Ford’s antisemitism and support for Nazi Germany mirror Musk’s current opposition to unions and endorsement of Germany’s far-right AfD party, which is linked to neo-Nazism.

Musk’s intervention in Germany’s election and promotion of far-right figures on X echoes Ford’s use of media to propagate hate.

Both industrialists are criticized for their social and political impact beyond their industries, with Musk’s actions raising alarm about democracy and labor rights.

  • EisFrei@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    No, he doesn’t make cars. That’s what robots and wage slaves are for. But that doesn’t have anything to do with him being a founder or not. (not)

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I wish the myth of Musk would be something the “liberal media” would work to puncture…I watched a video where I saw Piers Morgan saying nonsense about Musk and I think Neil deGrasse Tyson only pushed back on some of it.

      The common framing is that Musk is super genius who founded all these companies, is an engineer with multiple degrees, and it’s just all lies.