[PatrioticAmerican]

" Most people do not realize that a purely market economy is incapable of producing public goods such as roads, street lighting, police, army. "

That is what communists say, and it is exactly the main difference between communists and capitalists. Communism relies on government and that reliance continues until no one is left producing anything in the private sector.We didn't even have a police until 1820, or so. Street lighting? My community provides its own and there is no government that conrtols it.

[TopQuark]

TQ: " Most people do not realize that a purely market economy is incapable of producing public goods such as roads, street lighting, police, army. "

Patriot: That is what communists say,

No, I tried, and apparently failed, to explain to you that this issue is not of political economy; it is unrelated to the "capitalist-communist" dichotomy.

It stems from the rational behavior of agents, and you can verify this in any economic textbook.