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Except monarchies at least allowed trade, and in fact it was merchant guilds which introduced most of limitations on trade, not monarchies themselves.

Everything has suboptimal outcome when taken to the extreme. Fact is, different systems have different strengths and weaknesses, so they are good in different conditions... but conditions change. And system must be flexible enough to adapt to changing conditions - which itself has a lot of...

...and then people try to say that autarky is bad.

If they "only cared about facts", they would not be socialists. That is the basic psychology: socialism is about idealized world, about the world as it should be. Marx, Engels and their followers (including Progressives today - it is even in the name) are imagining an idealized world, a literal...

I will just say that, despite what (a lot of) people say, evils of Communism actually have direct root with Marx himself - even though he did not necessarily intend them to happen (and even that is iffy). But I will be posting a commentary on The Manifesto next month, probably (And if I forget...