An authoritarian character could embrace socialist economics while converting readily to National Socialism.

Evidence

But if those who had given these answers turned out to be authoritarian' in their attitudes to authority, or individualistic’ in their attitudes to fellow human beings, or both, they were classified as a contradictory combination' or as a rebellious authoritarian type’. It was said of this type: These people were filled with hate and anger against everyone who had money and who appeared to enjoy life. That part of the socialist platform which aimed at the overthrow of the propertied classes strongly appealed to them. On the other hand, items such as freedom and equality had not the slightest attraction for them, since they willingly obeyed every powerful authority they admired; they liked to control others, in so far as they had the power to do so. Their unreliability finally came into the open at the point when a programme such as that of the National Socialists was offered to them. This programme not only corresponded with the feelings which had made the Socialist programme attractive but also appealed to that side of their nature which Socialism had not satisfied or had unconsciously opposed. In such cases they were transformed from unreliable leftists into convinced National Socialists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 194

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the study’s ‘rebellious authoritarian type’ — the personality configuration at the center of the Frankfurt School’s theory of fascist susceptibility.
• ADDENDUM: Supplies the mechanism fragment for an essay on how left-wing socioeconomic grievance converts into reaction when paired with authoritarian character structure.
• XREF: connects to: An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism; Authoritarian workers could transfer loyalty from socialism to Nazism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 712; An underlying authoritarian personality can attach to either political extreme depending on power. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2834 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism; Authoritarian workers could transfer loyalty from socialism to Nazism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 712; An underlying authoritarian personality can attach to either political extreme depending on power. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2834 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• An authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism #corroborates (1.00)