Half of All Authoritarians Are Left Wing: A Reply to Eysenck and Stone

Evidence is summarized to show that: (1) if authoritarianism is measured by a behavior inventory, it is uncorrelated with either political party vote or ideology; (2) if measured by the California F scale, it shows little if any correlation with vote; and (3) scales of leftist political sentiment can be constructed which have high positive correlation with the F scale. As voting is arguably the most important political behavior for most people in a democracy, the roughly 50% of high Fscale scorers who vote leftist are proposed as the long-lost authoritarians of the left.