Technically, it was invented by the Dutch several decades earlier.
Also, might want to throw in that Communism - as a materialist struggle - was first and foremost an anti-colonial struggle, with local communal economic organizing simply being the most efficient way of rebasing the ownership of liberated capital. "Under communism, no food!" inevitably overlooks the horrifying wars (the World Wars, specifically) that obliterated much of these countries' arable infrastructure and population, prompting the revolution that capitalists blame for the famine.
Technically, it was invented by the Dutch several decades earlier.
Also, might want to throw in that Communism - as a materialist struggle - was first and foremost an anti-colonial struggle, with local communal economic organizing simply being the most efficient way of rebasing the ownership of liberated capital. "Under communism, no food!" inevitably overlooks the horrifying wars (the World Wars, specifically) that obliterated much of these countries' arable infrastructure and population, prompting the revolution that capitalists blame for the famine.