The misconception of Communism and Nazism

Since childhood, we were taught the perception that the different ideologies and regimes can all be presented in a one dimensional scale. On one side is communism and on the other side the fascism and Naziism with all the others in between. This scale is so obvious that almost nobody challenges or even checks it. Before going deeper into the meaning, When checking the semantics, this scale looks a bit strange regarding Naziism, which is the abbreviation of national socialism. Socialism is supposed to be closer to communism in terms of economics and proletarianism, not on the other side of the scale. But this might be only semantic. Let’s go deeper into the meaning. When rating regimes by only one parameter in one dimensional scale, we should expect that it would be the most important parameter. Such parameters can be the attitude to human rights and the measure of sharing the governance with the civilians (or, in other words, democracy). These parameters are not included in the common scale, otherwise communism and Naziism would be on the same side. On the other side, the modern democracies. A less meaningful parameter, which is more common to use, is the interfering level of the government in the economy. Communism is, of course, at the highest level on the scale. On the other side of that scale are the free market countries. Naziism is also at a high level, as under Naziism regime, markets were shrunk or closed. So again, Naziism and communism are on the same side. The ideologies and regimes cannot be defined by one-dimensional scale. Nevertheless, if attempting to illustrate it in one meaningful scale, it will be as follows: On one side are communism, Naziism and fascism, and on the other side the free markets democracies.