

You can separate capitalism from fascism as one side of the coin with the other. Capitalism invented fascism to defend it when the nation/state couldn’t anymore, against labor and unionism of late 19th century. From paid thugs shooting strikers to off duty cops carrying assassinations, torture and terrorism, to the evolution of a pseudo-ideology to take over Germany and attack the Soviet-Union, which in their eyes was the source of the problems western industrialists faced. Fascism grows from inside the very nature of capitalism and it is inseparable.
If capitalism is a brutally and violently enforced inequality, being authoritarian is a very mild characteristic. An army is authoritarian. Capitalism works as a club of dictators, as each corporation is one. There is no such thing as a democratic corporation, even when the dictator decides to share some ownership, the structure is a dictatorship.
What falsely poses as democracy is a condition where the terrorized are in peace with the monopoly of violence (the state) because they see no other option for survival. Outside of W.Europe and N.America most people see democracy as the absolute hypocrisy by western media.