The ideals that have informed traditional anarchism or socialism in modern European history have flowed directly from the ideals of Classical Liberalism and the Enlightenment.
Someone's a fan of
Noam Chomsky:
he is a self-declared anarcho-syndicalist and a libertarian socialist, principles he regards as grounded in the Age of Enlightenment and as "the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."
Classical Liberalism is based on Individualism and volitional consent while Socialism is based on Collectivism and coercion. While Noam considers his philosophy to be the "proper and natural extension of classical liberalism" I consider it to be a perversion sharing very little in common with classical liberalism.
Smith was pre-capitalism so his writing must be looked at differently.
Smith also pulled a 180 on his political beliefs, Capitalists can cite his earlier work as supportive their view while Socialists can cite his later work as supportive of theirs.
Jefferson was alive and got to see what was beginning to take shape..... which led him to denounce the "aristocracy of monied corporations" that threatened the essence of the American revolution.
Lets add a bit more context:
I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
You can read the full text of the letter
HERE.
The "example" Jefferson was referring to was that of England, where corporate colonialism created a partnership between the corporations and the state, nearly identical to the system of State Corporatism that has taken root here in America. One such example of the state granting monopoly rights to a corporation can be found
HERE on our forum. That is the type of systemic abuse Jefferson was trying to keep from taking root in America.
To claim Jefferson was saying that Corporations by themselves "threatened the essence of the American revolution" is intellectually dishonest. Jefferson spoke at length about the importance of separating church and state but honest people do not claim Jefferson was anti-religion. Jefferson believed in the separation of corporation and state for the same reason he believed in the separation of church and state, such partnerships are the enemy of liberty.