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Extreme forms of libertarianism advocate for open borders - for migration, not just for trade. Which is a very good way of destroying tradition and commonality, and thus ushering in governmental regulation. At that point, libertarianism becomes a basically leftist ideology.

And that is something we agree on. However, I also believe that relations between humans have to be regulated for a society to work. So yes, libertarianism actually promotes socialism. If you start getting rid of tradition in the name of freedom, you will get arbitrary regulation (a.k.a. laws)...

Does it take into account the fact that: 1) things which people want to obtain might be ideas, and not physical things (or something that can be bought)? 2) people might insist on having said something without giving anything in return? If it does not, then it is unrealistic.

Fact that it assumes / supposes rationality at all is a major flaw in the theory.

Yeah, it does appear we are in agreement. Agreed. In fact, while Communism is a lot more than economic policy, everything else does come from its economic policy, or at least the type of thinking that is based around the idea that humans are fundamentally Homo Oeconomicus, and that all other...

Or it shows how your thinking is limited to short-term only. The very fact that USSR killed millions means that it was less dangerous, because it was obviously evil. Nazism is less dangerous than Communism because it was so obviously evil - it was evil and it did not hide it. Communism is less...

Agreed. It is a neutral ideology more than anything; a true center, if you will. However, full-on libertarianism does help advance the Left, as I explain below. Free trade is good in that it helps economic performance, and it did help defeat USSR. But it also paved a way for megacorporations...

Globalism always leads to leftism, because leftism is more than just big government, control and idealism. Leftism also means removal of tradition, removal of cultural, political, ethnic etc. peculiarities. That is why I cannot in good conscience classify neoliberalism and extreme libertarianism...

I'm not really convinced that is the case. Progressives are fully capable of just making up injustices if there are none actually present. Anything that serves to preserve a society is an injustice to them. And because they are so aggressive at pushing their agenda, trying to even to compromise...

And all of that doesn't matter. Progressives and other bona-fide communists (and most socialists, in fact) do not hate the government, in fact it is the only thing they adore (and want to see increased). But they hate the tradition, the culture, the nation; they hate differences - not only...

Problem is that collective almost always wins against an individual, which means that libertarianism essentially helps remove resistance to communism.

Any books discussing that?