Left-Wing Authoritarianism: Myth or Reality?

Stone (1980) in his paper on The Myth of Left-Wing Authoritarianism attempts to present evidence to the effect that authoritarianism is essentially right-wing, and that although there are some left-wing authoritarians, their number is much smaller than that of right-wing authoritarians. Unfortunately his review of the literature is not as factual or objective as it might be, and his conclusions do not follow from the available data. It may be sufficient to list just a few of the omissions and problems with Stone's paper.