And when every comrade is given a small bag of beans and told to grow them “for food sovereignty” with a list of ecology-friendly high-tech directions (subject to re-education camp if compliance proves difficult), how many of those comrades will be alive the next year to share the redistributed harvest?
Deliberate or not, this is a means to solve the supply-and-demand problem by aggressively, yet indirectly, reducing demand by large percentages (seeing as supply falters when starved of profit).
Quite true, especially the last part of your last sentence (seeing as supply falters when starved of profit). "
As I recall, when the State orders you to to sell product at a financial loss (ie.: the State imposed rate), you loose out not only $$ financially, but also you loose incentive.
The State decree forces you to loose faith in yourself and the State, and your own productivity; it's a "two-fer" of imposed control by the State.
When you loose faith, it is only a matter of time before you loose hope, ..and then become totally submissive.
This is an example of how incremental State imposed power and control leads to population submission.