Anarchists (Anarcho-Capitalists/Free Market Anarchists/Voluntaryists) are actually libertarians. Not all libertarians are anarchists, some are minarchists (Those that support a limited government with only 1 task: protecting people's property rights). There's also a difference between Libertarians (as in members/supporters of the Libertarians party) and libertarians.
There's also a potential problem with the word Liberal because the original liberals (now called classical liberals) (Bastiat, Mises,..) are basically libertarian minarchists. These days the word liberal has a different meaning depending on where you live. The way Americans use the word differs from the way Europeans use it. And even in Europe the word has different meanings depending on the country you're in.
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