It's because most people look at politics as a one-dimensional line. I think of politics as a three-dimensional box: 1). Economics, which covers the left-wing right-wing dynamic / 2). Power: whether government is centralized or decentralized, (Authoritarian vs. Libertarian) / and finally, 3). Representation: homogeneity versus heterogeneity, (is your government a Christian State, a Muslim State, a Jewish state, a German state, or conversely, is it for anyone and everyone?
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union we're extremely similar in the first two categories, both were extremely authoritative and socialist, but differed in the final category, Nazi Germany was for Germanic Aryans, while the Soviet Union was for anyone, (at least theoretically, there was still tremendous racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, etc).
It's because most people look at politics as a one-dimensional line. I think of politics as a three-dimensional box: 1). Economics, which covers the left-wing right-wing dynamic / 2). Power: whether government is centralized or decentralized, (Authoritarian vs. Libertarian) / and finally, 3). Representation: homogeneity versus heterogeneity, (is your government a Christian State, a Muslim State, a Jewish state, a German state, or conversely, is it for anyone and everyone? Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union we're extremely similar in the first two categories, both were extremely authoritative and socialist, but differed in the final category, Nazi Germany was for Germanic Aryans, while the Soviet Union was for anyone, (at least theoretically, there was still tremendous racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, etc).