Developing a left-wing authoritarianism scale requires blocking right-wing revolutionaries from scoring high

Evidence

This paragraph, and two unscored table-setters that lead off the LWA Scale, firmly equated the Establishment with the economic or political right-wing, and the revolutionary movement with the left-wing. I also used those winged phrases, and “socialist,” and “conservative” to keep people who wanted a right-wing revolution from scoring highly on the LWA Scale. (These people interest and even terrify one, but we are searching here for Shils’s monster.) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2916

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Shils’s thesis (referenced in the text) that left-wing authoritarianism mirrors right-wing; relevant to the vault’s Cooper and Whitehead-Perry tradition-of-authoritarianism debate.