In a highly read article on Bloomberg Seattle Venture Capitalist Nick Hanauer along with his co-author Eric Liu have written a provocative article comparing Radical Libertarianism and Communism as being two sides of the same extreme coin. In their article: Libertarians Are the New Communists they state:
Most people would consider radical libertarianism and communism polar opposites: The first glorifies personal freedom. The second would obliterate it. Yet the ideologies are simply mirror images. Both attempt to answer the same questions, and fail to do so in similar ways. Where communism was adopted, the result was misery, poverty and tyranny. If extremist libertarians ever translated their beliefs into policy, it would lead to the same kinds of catastrophe.
This is a groundbreaking essay and I hope the start of taking back the conversation from Fox news and general media who carry water for the neo-cons.