No evidence demonstrates fascists and communists share an authoritarian personality type

Evidence

Reviewing the literature on left-wing authoritarianism in 1993, Stone and Smith concluded that Roger Brown’s (1965, p. 542) often-cited summation still stands: “It has not been demonstrated that fascists and communists resemble one another in authoritarianism or in any other dimension of ideology.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2816

Categorization

• QUESTION: Altemeyer immediately concedes researchers haven’t searched with the right instruments — worth chasing what his own left-wing authoritarian scale eventually found.
• XREF: Echoes the horseshoe vs. linear theories of political spectrum; connects to left-wing authoritarianism debates in the post-Soviet and Tankie discourse. — connects to: Authoritarian personality theory holds that a psychological structure, not objective circumstances, determines fascist character — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1780; No political movement of uniform personality types could function — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 682