Most importantly, true anarchists opposed private property - without which no voluntary relationships are possible. Today's libertarians are in the classical liberal tradition of Algernon Sidney, John Locke, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Edmund Burke, Herbert Spencer, and Frederic Bastiat - not the anarchist tradition of Proudhon, Kropotkin, and Bakunin. Others advocate government by whim. Libertarians adhere to certain principles , and without the guidance of principles and standards, all that is left is pragmatic expediency and the tyranny of government by whim. Because libertarianism is based on man's nature and the nature of reality, it is the most practicable social system.
Libertarians are practical idealists.
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