>>84317
>Right-wing authoritarianism
Yeah, this trash. It reminds me of a "study" a good acquaintance and former friend once ran, about "bullshit". The word was even in the title of the study. Basically, he declared some beliefs to be bullshit and then studied why people believe this bullshit.
Same with the guy who came up with right-wing authoritarianism, forgot his name. I think he came up with it, at least. He set up the questions up in a way that guaranteed evangelicals would fail. Like whether they'd change their views to conform to new evidence. Obviously, such a question is not unlikely to be answered in the negative by people who don't buy into the atheist rhetoric about rationality, or those who believe in a priori principles, even if they might be openminded generally. That evangelicals are retarded goes without mention, but you don't have to be dishonest to out them as retards.
Then he let them participate in a nation simulator. The libertarians and conservatives that he labeled to be right-wing authoritarians all caused a massive famine with their laissez-faire foolishness, whereas the left-wingers that participated solved worldwide hunger through redistribution policies. He set one group up for failure, and called that "science".
Right, Bob Altemeyer. That was the assholes name.
>all organizations with leftists in them will tend to become completely leftist over time.
All organizations not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing over time, it was.
>>84325
Best to define it historically, it's the only thing that makes sense. Look at what defined Italian Fascism, then see which other societies and regimes were influenced by it. I would argue that there simply is no idealtype of fascism, it's a composite of several rather unrelated, even contradictory concepts, a mass movement striving to have a patriarchal figure on top, spiritualism void of all content, a positivistic belief in the malleability of human beings and a romantic notion of heroism. There is no hard core to it. It can be all things to all people, because it tries to be all things at once.
>>84339
This: >>84343