Supposed left-wing authoritarians in past movements were probably right-wing wild cards

Evidence

Well then, what about all those earlier “sightings,” including Manitoba’s militant Maoists? I suspect that the hostile, dogmatic, authoritarian people who sometimes appeared in such movements were usually Wild-Card Authoritarians, not Left-Wingers. I have no proof of this, since the instruments needed to find these “combos” did not exist at the time. But I offer Table 9.1 as evidence. Maybe the future will bless us (?) with a resurgence of radical left-wing movements in North America, so we can test this prediction. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2993 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Second, when I looked at these 49 relatively high LWAs, I found 11 of them had also been High RWAs (where they really were high), but only 6 of them had been Low RWAs. These “High-Highs” killed any chance for a big negative correlation. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2897 (#expands, via linked claim)

I call persons who reject the normal established authorities in society right-wing authoritarians when they believe the “real” established authority (e.g., their reading of God’s will, or the Constitution) has been usurped by left-wing Jews, feminists, homosexuals, and so on (Altemeyer 1996, p. 9). And indeed, RWA scores correlated solidly with Militia scale responses in this study. But some social dominators also held militia sentiments, and left-wing authoritarianism scores roared out the mightiest relationship of all. What in the name of holy conspiracy theories is going on here? — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1000 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most left-wing party supporters lacked a matching radical personality type. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 707; Scholars on the left increasingly favor China-style authoritarianism over democracy — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1640; Well-funded right-wing groups borrowed leftist protest aesthetics for funded political goals — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 553 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Apparent left-wing authoritarians were actually high-RWA wild cards who drifted into radical movements #corroborates (1.00) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2993
• People high in left-wing authoritarianism tended also to score high on right-wing authoritarianism #expands (0.95) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2897
• Militia beliefs correlate most strongly with left-wing authoritarianism #complicates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1000
• Left-wing authoritarianism is nearly nonexistent in contemporary samples #complicates (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1003