Basically they’re trying to say “things got so bad due to mismanagement people had to line up and receive rations to stay fed.” Those that understand the concept and aren’t just convinced communism is when you literally form a line to get bread from a sneering commissar.

They’re saying communism sucks so bad it has to go into crisis mode, or is inherently in some kind of crisis mode just for being communist. Food security is a pretty salient vector for critically evaluating a state or system, so by focusing on food they give their pithy line some intellectual firmness. We must also remember that welfare is for poor people and communist countries have poor people so they have welfare and because individual poverty is individual choice the country must have made the wrong choice to be poor by being communist etc etc blah blah blah we all know their moral arguments.

Meanwhile you read this and look at the state of things with the and the and the and the besides rent, groceries, and everything else snowballing into the shit that stresses you out

And you might look at all of this and go “Well? Isn’t this some kind of crisis? When is this system going to go into crisis mode?”

Shit is clearly going some weird kinda way right now and some sort of system reaction addressing food security would be pretty cool!