I am sick and tired of being told that because I believe in free markets that I am a partisan of Adam Smith.
Smith did a lot of good economic work, but he was also wrong about a lot of things too.
If one supports economic freedom they have to reject parts of Smith's analysis.
I'm sceptical. I'm leaning more toward the opinion that it's newspeak. Heck, type "free trade is socialism" a few hundred times and you might begin to believe it. Personally, I can't type it without bursting out in laughter, but that's just me.
Incidentally, I don't mind being called a partisan of Adam Smith (although Milton Friedman is more my type). Most of the time, the raving anti-Smith types are so unfamiliar with his work that they are unable to find anything he wrote that is disagreeable.