Oh no, a famine is a crisis they can use. Supply food to those who play ball, let the rest starve. It’s the only way to get rid of that 25 million Ayers talked about eliminating.
Lenin and Stalin showed the way. In Russia the peasants were the least reliable politically and were starved. Here the larger farmers are already pretty firmly attached to the government teat. The target “class” would be the small businessmen and the private sector managerial class who would be sort of analagous to the Ukrainian Kulaks. These are the independent minded folks who balk at government control. The Wealthy, whom we might assume to be allergic to the communists are the easiest group to deal with. Some will join the Revolution willingly and the group is small enough that the unreliables can simply be killed or put to directed labor quickly and easily. The President already has a legal right to sequester and/or kill anyone he chooses without any sort of judicial proceedings thanks to the current version of the Homeland Security law which our 2010 Tea Party reps eagerly passed.