
Like everything else in real life it’s not black and white it’s gray. They both believe in absolutely loyalty to the state above all else, that the state should play a role in every individual’s life, and in authoritarian control of the population. Nazis, however, believe in racial supremacy and derive their “justification for power” from the idea that the nation should be racially pure under one identity, while communists theoretically don’t (just don’t talk about Russification)
The thing about normal people is that they don’t typically philosophize about circumstances, abstract concepts, and political philosophy to grasp the nuance of ideas, how they form, and what they actually are. On paper, a village is run like a village and you may not see a vast difference across ideological lines because they are more subtle on the micro level even if the impacts of policy are massive on the macro level. Being able to see the bigger picture and the smaller picture is important