Correlation with fascist views does not prove an attitude itself is fascist.

Evidence

Can it be demonstrated that resentment of unions' or of income limitations’ are `potentially fascist persuasions’? Here one would not be convinced by the argument that they are correlated with other points of view that are undeniably fascist. For why may not these attitudes conceivably be the ones in a generally authoritarian personality that offer hope for action in behalf of democracy? If a person is resentful of unions he may be resentful of what he conceives of as an illegitimate infringement of his liberties; perhaps he is protecting his individuality, his sense of his own capacity to make his own way, perhaps he thinks he is resisting becoming part of a mass. Similarly, even in this book one can find evidence indicating that resentment of the limitation of one’s income may not be a pre-fascist trait; for example, the non-authoritarians are more interested in sensual and material pleasures, less interested in status and power, than the authoritarians. And in fact, is not income sought for pleasure as well as status and power? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 449

Categorization

• XREF: The entire F-scale/Authoritarian Personality debate is the methodological spine of Adorno’s postwar American reception. — connects to: An underlying psychological structure, not stated opinions, determines fascist potential. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 439; No evidence demonstrates fascists and communists share an authoritarian personality type — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2816
• SEED: An essay on how 1950s Cold War liberals turned the anti-authoritarian toolkit against its own authors — the ‘pseudo-leftist’ gap as an ideological blind spot.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: An underlying psychological structure, not stated opinions, determines fascist potential. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 439; No evidence demonstrates fascists and communists share an authoritarian personality type — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2816