Left-wing authoritarianism cannot be measured without abandoning the construct’s core definition.

Evidence

But if you had to drop the submission, aggression, and conventionalism content to pull this off, you would not be measuring authoritarianism (by my definition at least). Nor would you if the internal consistency dropped appreciably as the items became mellower. You can quickly come up with items on which leftwingers will score highly. But you cannot demonstrate there is an authoritarian on the left with statements such as “The rich should share their wealth more.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4298

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages the recurring ‘left-wing authoritarianism’ debate in current political psychology — connects to the RWA scale’s three-component definition established earlier in the book.