Each ideal-typical character type was abstracted from one party ideology’s appeal
Evidence
The
radical attitude' was drawn fromsocialist-communist philosophy’ as the image of a particularideal-typical' mental attitude to which the political doctrine was making its appeal. Thecompromise-orientated reformist attitude’ was drawn fromliberal-reformist philosophy', and theauthoritarian attitude’ from `anti-socialistauthoritarian philosophy’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 192
Categorization
- XREF: Pays off the Horkheimer circle’s later claim that an authoritarian personality could be publicly socialist yet convert readily to Nazism. — connects to: Fromm read partisan affiliation as a surface over distinct character types; Reducing typical characters to class allegories is itself an idealist move — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 390
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fromm read partisan affiliation as a surface over distinct character types; Reducing typical characters to class allegories is itself an idealist move — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 390
Broader Connections
- Reducing typical characters to class allegories is itself an idealist move
#complicates(0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 390