“Communism is when no food.”
This is an incredibly stupid meme. Honestly probably the worst.
It’s based on a few cherry picked extremely exaggerated accidental famines that happened while brand new communist countries were still recovering from war and being subjected to extreme sanctions. There’s often accusations that these famines were engineered on purpose but no actual substantial evidence has ever been provided that this was the case. All citations of such, if you actually bother to follow them, end up ending with capitalist propaganda outlets, never any actual substantial proof. When someone did decide to dig into the actual data for one of them, it turns out he found substantial evidence proving the exact opposite was the case. (ISBN 978-0578445533) Were mistakes made? Sure. They were figuring it out as they went along. However pretending that was somehow an intrinsic component of communism or that it was in any way intentional is at best extremely dishonest.
Worse, the meme completely ignores that when actually studied scientifically based on the actual data, socialism was proven to provide for the people better than capitalism. (https://doi.org/10.2307/3342145)
Worse still, it pretends capitalism isn’t guilty of starving people. The US lets 13,690 of it’s own people starve to death per year despite sending five million tons of food straight to the landfill. That’s the very definition of artificial scarcity. Further, not only do famines happen under capitalism, but capitalism has actually demonstrably engineered famines on purpose (this time with plenty of evidence). The British Empire engineered no less than 11 famines in India alone between 1770-1943 and right now, NATO is actively engineering a famine in Gaza. (Along with a full on genocide.)
“The rich create jobs.”
WRONG! Market demand creates jobs. The capitalist class just leeches off from the labor that does the work to fulfill that need and pockets the surplus value instead of letting the people who actually did the fucking work reap the benefits of their labor. If there is a need to fill there is already a job. It doesn’t matter how the economy is organized or who benefits from the surplus value of that labor. The job already exists because there is a need to fill.
“Poverty is the default state.”
WRONG! This hasn’t been true since the industrial revolution. (Likely longer.) Thanks to industrial output, we now produce more goods and services than the population can actually use. This is called “surplus value” and it’s one of the core contradictions of capitalism. It’s one of the many reasons why an unplanned economy is inherently bad and one of the primary driving forces behind inflation and artificial scarcity. In an industrialized nation, poverty is a policy choice. They could provide and distribute enough goods and services for everyone, they just choose not to. To the capitalist, if you can’t be exploited for your labor, your life has no value, which is why capitalism is inherently immoral. Arbitrarily deciding the value of some human lives is greater than others is how genocides happen.