/lit/ - Literature

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Millionaires and billionaires are quite happy
Bootlicking security apparatuses are well funded

Capitalist economic theory seems pretty accessible, seeing as it's taught in schools and found in the business section of the local newspaper. It's pretty easy to be familiar with the models and theories, the curves and graphs and efficiency and all that.

I've long found myself agreeing with radical left critiques of capitalism (wage labour being bad, inequality being bad, corporate control of political decision-making, etc), but have been hesitant to move from progressive welfare liberalism to socialism because, unlike capitalist theory, which consists of models demonstrating how it maximizes efficiency, I am not familiar with any socialist models or theories that demonstrate that an optimal allocation of scarce goods is possible.

Von Mises seems to have demonstrated that central planning is doomed to fail because the lack of price signals means producers have no information about how much to produce. However, I've never been a fan of central planning or authoritarian socialism anyway, and have more anarchistic sympathies.

Is there literature on how decentralized socialism could work well? What should I read? I only have vague inkling about the existence of mutualists, syndicalists, the Parecon, etc., but I know nothing about the systems they advocate and how those meet the challenges of socialism. Any good texts?