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New study show that there's little difference between rightwing authoritarians (fascistoid identitarians) and leftwing authoritarians (fascistoid identitypolitics & socialist activists). Clarifying the Structure and Nature of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
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These traits include a preference for social uniformity, prejudice toward different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior, cognitive rigidity, aggression toward perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.

Notable differences between LWA and RWA/SDO also emerged. E.g., left-wing authoritarians were lower in dogmatism and cognitive rigidity, higher in negative emotionality, and expressed stronger support for a political system with substantial centralized state control.

It also found that LWA, RWA, and SDO predicted aggression towards people with different political views and helping towards people with similar views in a well-validated behavioral paradigm (with large effect sizes, i.e., roughly 10% of the total variance).

In a nationally representative sample, LWA was also correlated with participation in violence during the largely peaceful protests held in response to the killings of unarmed black americans by police/civilians in 2020.

The authors argue the nearly universal exclusion of left-wing features from previous descriptions of authoritarianism, with little consideration of LWA’s and RWA’s commonalities, has severely limited our ability to understand what authoritarianism truly IS.

Another study on"Left-wing authoritarianism is a 'real and pervasive issue,' according to a massive new psychology study":
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