The limited government people would seem to have a strong case that power should be removed from the political system since it is so easily corrupted.
I don't quite understand how the answer to a political system easily manipulated is to make it even more powerful.
No, that dystopia - not a coincidence that so many SF writers have predicted it - is not the direction we should go. Governments have a responsibility to represent the people collectively where the people can not represent themselves individually. True liberty requires that tension between people-via-government and other kinds of power. It's awful that the government we have is pulling on the wrong end of the rope, but saying they should drop it entirely is practically the same. They should be pulling on our side.
This "make government tiny" philosophy leads to oligarchy and neo-feudalism as sure as Soviet communism did, for much the same reason. It's just another tactic that the autocratically minded use to weaken or discredit their potentially most effective adversary. What we need is a robust government willing to stand up to the oligarchs, not kowtow to them.
http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm
Even if you claim that the outcomes are the same, you cannot claim that the paths are identical, that's just lazy argumentation that ignores the history of philosophy.
I didn't claim the paths are identical, and don't believe they are. I said the reasons are much the same. They both deny human nature. One relies on a level of altruism that doesn't exist. The other relies on a level of "rational self interest" that doesn't exist. Both rely on a level of honesty that doesn't exist. Similar reasons, less similar paths, almost identical outcomes.
> that's just lazy argumentation
No, lazy argumentation is presenting no argument but a link to someone else who says "Time forbids the treatment of that phase of the subject here" when addressing the matter at hand. There is no way to that anarchist (what we would now call libertarian) utopia but the same kind of revolution that led to communism's notable real-world failures. Furthermore, there is no way to maintain such a system and keep it from devolving into oligarchy other than to have a robust government to keep the four monopolies from re-forming. This "anarchy" in practice ends up looking a lot like modern socialism.