Why do people say they hate capitalism when they mean fascism?

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Lots of "isms" here that only serve to obfuscate the issue.

In the U.S., for example, the theories advocating free-market capitalism suffered much from tax-payer bail-outs of "too big to fail" banks and Wall Street executives who essentially privatized their profits, but socialized their losses (e.g., tax-payers saved Bank of America...who turned around and foreclosed on thousands of mortgages of home owners who'd paid to keep them in business).

Also, you couldn't find more purely "socialist" programs, anywhere in the world, than the benefits provided for veterans or social security recipients in this country.

As far as "fascism," the closest example we have in this country is most obviously related to the Supreme Court's recognition of corporations as "entities," thereby ascribing to them the same rights as individual human beings, and allowing them unrestricted freedom to commodify the legislative process.

In short, each of these "isms" are alike in that they may provide both benefit, and detriment to any society that doesn't check and balance its own interests.