So Holla Forums, I've been on this board for close to two years now and I've learned a lot. My outlook on socialism and communism has changed and I'm much more open for ideas. So thank you, first of all. The only reason I haven't rejected communism is because I don't see why the system wouldn't change in the future again.
1. I've discussed it in other threads before and seen it recently claimed a few times, but why do you think that capitalism is inefficient in the allocation of resources and the free market is inferior to your particular leftist tendency? I'll concede to Cockshott because even the Austrians were on damage control after his book, but what about the USSR and other countries that had centralized economies? They were grossly inefficient in terms of resource use and quality control. And don't post the dumped food image that makes fun of the efficiency of capitalism, because the same can be done by posting breadlines to poke fun at socialism.
And I'll give you an example, according to my own family's experience living in the USSR, there were always breadlines; 60s, 70s, 80s, in villages they would have a meat delivery once or a few times a week and people would wake up early to stand in line just so they could choose between two kinds of meat, or drive all the way to central cities like Moscow where there was more abundance. How could this possibly compete with an economy that is coordinated by price?
2. What do you think of the first pic? Both kind of make sense and I guess that really the crux of all economic dilemmas. What would be the Marxist take on those 4 points? Would a libertarian society really be worse than a more centralized state? Somalia is not an argument.
3. How was the Great Depression caused by the free market exactly? The subject is so muddied that I've never seen a clear answer as to why it happened even from Sowell out of all people, tho he did say the government made it worse by putting price and wage regulations. Speaking of, what's your take on these two things?