One in five Weimar worker-party supporters held clearly authoritarian attitudes

Evidence

One must also not forget that 20% of the supporters of the workers’ parties expressed, in their opinions and feelings, a clearly authoritarian tendency. Only 5% were consistently authoritarian; 15% displayed this attitude rather ambiguously. Beyond this, 19% of Social Democrats and Communists tended towards the rebellious-authoritarian position with clear contradictions between Rand A-replies. 5% of the Left had a compromise-orientated attitude, and 16% in all came into the neutral syndrome category. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the later Adorno et al. ‘Authoritarian Personality’ scales; the R/A categories here are their prototype.
• SEED: Angle: an essay on how 1930s empirical personality data predicted the collapse of the Weimar left.