wait how can the creators of liberalism be called classical liberals if liberal means something different than its classic form furthermore how can something be classic when it was once origina don't you see that liberalism had to become classic liberalism because many people strayed from its beliefs by changing its core values and meanings thus i do not see a problem with mentioning how classical liberals believe themselves to be the true liberals and that modern welfare statist liberals have perverted the meaning libertarians are a reaction from the virtual elimination of liberals classical liberals from the political scene as both democrats and republicans continued to abandon their beliefs on freer markets and limited government thats it there are various levels of libertarians and free market advocates and only a few of them advocate anarchism i think you conflate free market with anarchy furthermore i think you've failed to realize that milton friedman considers himself a liberal while being a member of the republican party another supposed noted american libertarian is john stossle and he hates the term libertarian he prefers to call himself a liberal but the meaning is something different from what it once was so he reluctantly refers to himself as a classical liberal for the less informed or a libertarian for the most ignorant furthermore there has never been a laissez faire american life this is bogus leftist tory propoganda gibby