Decades of attempts to find a left-wing analogue to authoritarianism have come up empty

Evidence

But then Shils (1954) points out that Communists would also score low, and they seem as “authoritarian” as fascists. Rokeach (1960) suggests dogmatism equals “general authoritarianism,” and are not left-wingers dogmatic? So everyone goes looking for left-wing authoritarians. But nobody can find them, not with the D Scale anyway. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2808

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the left-wing authoritarianism literature revisited in the 2010s-2020s by Costello et al., which revived the construct with a new scale. — connects to: Most left-wing party supporters lacked a matching radical personality type. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 707
• SEED: An article angle: how a supposedly settled ‘no left-wing authoritarians’ finding got overturned decades later with a better scale — a case study in null results being provisional.