> Starving the farmers and consequently others is rather characteristic of communism, You're confusing communism with dictatorship. Communism is about communal

> Starving the farmers and consequently others is rather characteristic of communism, You're confusing communism with dictatorship. Communism is about communal ownership, and likely some version of worker-ownership ("own the means of production"). If the system, or its leaders, are starving the farmers, and the farmers and their customers can't actively negotiate against that practice, you don't have communism at all.