Each ideal-typical character type was abstracted from one party ideology’s appeal

Evidence

The radical attitude' was drawn from socialist-communist philosophy’ as the image of a particular ideal-typical' mental attitude to which the political doctrine was making its appeal. The compromise-orientated reformist attitude’ was drawn from liberal-reformist philosophy', and the authoritarian 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