A fifth of German proletarian party supporters held authoritarian attitudes

Evidence

20% of the supporters of the workers’ parties expressed, in their opinions and feelings, a clearly authoritarian tendency. Only 5% were consistently authoritarian; 15% displayed this attitude rather ambiguously. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 709

Categorization

• XREF: Pre-echoes the authoritarian personality typology that Adorno et al. would systematize in the 1950s Berkeley study. — connects to: Only 15 percent of Weimar left-wing voters were radical in both thought and feeling — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 193; Only 15% of German workers structurally matched left-wing parties in personality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 708; West German students showed more authoritarian than democratic latent political potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2349 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• West German students showed more authoritarian than democratic latent political potential #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2349
• An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism #corroborates (0.78)
• People with intense personal convictions are more likely to oppose authoritarian regimes. #contradicts (0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1143
• Study samples showed greater authoritarian divergence between parties than students estimated #expands (0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 509