Some authoritarians could defect to revolutionary movements against the establishment

Evidence

In closing this section, let me try to mine three nuggets of insight from the discovery of the Wild-Card Authoritarians. First, if we recall that Wild Cards almost always find the RWA Scale more to their liking than the LWA Scale, … I think we can understand better the perplexing careers of Benito Mussolini, Lyndon LaRouche, and others who started out on the political left, but ended up way over on the political right. Some High RWAs can turn up in leftist movements. Second, you can see why left-wing organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Students for a Democratic Society eventually split into nonviolent and violent factions. The Left-Wingers and the Wild Cards could not work together forever. Third, these results may help explain why leftist revolutions so often become dictatorships if they succeed. Wild Cards tend to control things at the end of the war. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2996 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Gramsci, in a 1922 letter to Trotsky who had requested information on futurism for his “Literature and Revolution ”, described how the workers before the World War “had seen in futurism the elements of a struggle against the old academic culture of Italy, mummified and alien to the popular masses …”. But during the war the futurists were violent interventionists, and subsequently their positions converged on the one hand with fascism and on the other with d’Annunzio’s nationalism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1986 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An anti-establishment artistic movement can be absorbed into authoritarian nationalism — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1986; Dominant authoritarians migrating through leftist movements skew revolutions toward dictatorship; Authoritarian dispositions can attach to whichever authority happens to be in power — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2906 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Personality-driven authoritarians, not ideological leftists, drive leftist movements toward violence and dictatorship. #complicates (0.78) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2996
• An anti-establishment artistic movement can be absorbed into authoritarian nationalism #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1986