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Yes and no. Aristocracy can exist independent from fascism, and should be considered entirely separately. However, if they can't maintain power with a purely conservative/reactionary coalition, aristocrats will almost always side with fascists over liberals, much less socialists. As such, in the modern day, aristocracies are aligned with fascists, despite fascism erasing aristocracy as it 'succeeds' and aristocrats being generally aware that fascists do not have their aristocratic interests in mind.
Oh absolutely, it's just that the modern day aristocrats of capitalism are so short sighted they can't see past their own nose.
They don't know that their own wealth is meaningless since rule of law is not theirs, and no one will care if they get epstiened like many Russian oligarchs.
"First they came" and all that
There is a difference between aristocracy and oligarchy. Aristocracy is under the thumb of the monarch, oligarchy isn't.
On the Wikipedia page, it states that oligarchy is "Aristocracy's corrupt counterpart".
At the end of the day there is no way an aristocracy doesn't become corrupt, so the result is just a label