I wanted some inputs from you on how to debate the socialists. What are those basic 7 or 8 or 10 or 13 points where they always go wrong. Something like principles which could be abstracted. For example they always go wrong in assuming that things can be planned which can be squashed by speaking to them of disasters, diseases which come unplanned. Of course they still argue that "govt can make allocation" but immediately they know (and they also know that their audience knows) that they have started treading on thin ice. One more thing for example which I have used to great effect is that against "surplus value". After allowing them to speak I just say "what if the product is not bought" and then they go silent and start saying how is it possible (it is easy to counter that with day to day examples) and then they say they will produce different products (at which time you can ask what happens to the redundant machinery) and then who pays for that. Finally you could squash the surplus value argument.

Please understand that I come from a so called developing country (India) and would like to have these as a ready reckoner to answer socialism. Something like common fallacies of socialism and communism and how they can be countered. Thanks in advance.