There’s communism and then there’s welfare.
Apples and oranges.
True, Communists don’t deliver your benefits to a convenient debit card that you can use at the store. With Communists, you can have free food, if you are willing to wait in line for twelve hours and fight with five hundred other starving people for the one hundred loaves of bread that are left.
Believe me, under Soviet and Chinese Communism, you didn’t get anything handed to you.....You either had to stand in line, or know someone who could get something for you.