An underlying psychological structure, not stated opinions, determines fascist potential.

Evidence

And it was ultimately this psychological structurewhich was bound to express itself in certain opinions and forms of behaviour, even if these seemed to affect only quite personal or neutral matterswhich was decisive for whether someone had a fascist character and was thus potentially anti-Semitic or not, and which made it possible to recognize this. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 439

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies what ‘potentially fascist character’ means operationally in the Frankfurt research: a psychological structure expressed even in neutral-seeming domains.
• XREF: connects to: Fascist character reflects weak ego, externalized superego, and ego-alienated id — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 438; Authoritarian personality theory holds that a psychological structure, not objective circumstances, determines fascist character — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1780; Fascism exploits psychological tendencies rather than being caused by them. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 206 (+14 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fascist character reflects weak ego, externalized superego, and ego-alienated id — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 438; Authoritarian personality theory holds that a psychological structure, not objective circumstances, determines fascist character — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1780; Fascism exploits psychological tendencies rather than being caused by them. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 206 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian personality theory holds that a psychological structure, not objective circumstances, determines fascist character #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1780
• Traits shared across high and low prejudice scorers reveal potential fascism in culture itself. #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 445
• Fascist followers do not truly believe but perform their own enthusiasm. #complicates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 220
• Fascism’s cohesion rests on overt terror, not just psychic compliance #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 495
• Non-participation in fascism can still promote a depoliticising justificationism toward it #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 54