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John Jay Ray studied the psychology of political leftists. In this monograph he says the defining characteristic is rage.

http://tongue-tied2.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-appears-below-is-attempt-to.html

From the monograph:

“Because the Leftist is angry rather than prudent, however, he cares not a bit for the conservative’s caution. The most thorough-going Leftist just wants to smash everything that exists around him out of the feeling that it is all so hateful that none of it is worth preserving. And in the French revolution, the Bolshevik revolution, the Maoist revolution and many more minor revolutions, the Leftists got their way — with results we all know about. Doing any sort of a good job of putting back together what they have smashed is beyond them. They are destroyers only. Hate is not constructive.”