You don't see any state run bread lines do you?

That's because they'd rather you starve, but the mafia has soup lines waiting for you.

The reason of the confusion is clear.

The US propaganda has always equated Communism and totalitarianism.

It is bonkers that people in the USA cannot distinguish between an economic system and a political system.

Those two are distinct things. True communism is very democratic. But reading the Communist manifesto is heretic in the US and you are left with what your leaders tell you.

The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.

Right wing totalitarian dictators also use starvation of their own people as means of control.

What you are experiencing in the US is totalitarianism and while it hasn't gotten to USSR levels, it is going on that direction.

Food for thought: study the political system in China, you'd be surprised how it's actually more democratic than the current USA. Yes, the CCP controls the nominations. Now, tell me if there is true plurality in the US, two right wing parties selecting their candidates without any real popular input.

Really you've been bamboozled to think there is real democracy in the US.

At this point, this joke is basically like kicking a dead horse.

yeah, but that's different because this is BROWN PEOPLE, at least some of them. so it's completely different.

We’ve had communism for the wealthy as long as I can remember

You know, some people get really worked up about how some sodas are really good and others are horrible. Healthwise they're all really just sugar water with some flavor and color sprinkled on top.

The flavoring and coloring are the least nutritionally relevant parts of the beverages and yet are what everyone obsesses over when discussing which of them is best.

The flavor doesn't change the nature of all the sugar, despite how different they feel to the palate.

A very costly lesson many maya people and other enemies of the aztec empire learnt after the spanish came to the americas was that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.

A greedy sociopathic leader with lack of empathy will always cause starvation, be it capitalism or communism or any other system anywhere. Shitty kings, dictators, and colonialists have always caused this since the beginning of time. It ain't about the system.

In my country, one evil of communism I always heard was "not being able to buy Adidas shoes and Levis jeans". But if capitalism makes it a de facto luxury product through devaluing your work, then it's tough luck.

To be fair, a lot of communist revolution did result in mass starvation.

Not exactly, no, you see what both the USSR and the CCP did was decentralize agricultural planning under the assumption that farmers would still grow enough food to feed everyone even if they weren't remunerated, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.

What the USA is doing is producing the food but not remunerating it. The end results might be the same but that is yet to be seen.

"Let them eat Soybeans."

As a note, communism involves some ideas that are impossible or nearly so.

Imagine a society in which every person has exactly the same sociopolitical power as every other person; representatives and officials do not have additional power; that's a property of a truly communist society. We don't believe that can be done IRL.

Imagine a society in which everyone's needs are met for an extreme body of needs (say as defined by the UN Universal Declaration of Human RIghts). The only transients that exist either are in a short line to be issued a dwelling, or don't want one. Everyone is fed. Everyone has their own stuff. This isn't impossible, but is difficult as heck to reach.

Communism is a goal that a society tries to reach similar to a zero homicide rate We don't expect to get there, but we do want our society to ever get closer, as we discover new means to approach that limit.

We reach for the ideal of a communist society. We never expect to actually get there.

Nah, we got fat reserves.

Source: we(i?) drink the gusher insides first then refill w mayo.

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But it’s their fault for being poor. - Republicans

Also, in a famine, it is grossly unfair to put all blame on a single leader/government. In USSR's case, during global famine, the US insisted debt be paid in food, and the government had to react to extortionist farmer class (Kulak) pricing. It is entirely political to create narrative of opponents fault for everything, when they are faced with hard decisions that your country imposed on them.

In this case, it is especially eggregious to not only force starvation by executive decision in times of relative abundance, but to further provide IRS directives that would collect less (minimum corporate tax rules) from oligarchs, so that budget/revenue is further reduced, and excuse to continue starving people becomes a manufactured crisis.

its what dictators use to be exact.