How could we get to “to each according to need” for food? For one thing, the means of production of food would need to be commonly provided. And likewise a lot of the work.

The patterns of food production for some crops have already changed from the individual private farmer: for example, Community Supported Agriculture, often including shared work on the farm in addition to paying up front for a share of the crop. Or permaculture, where typically many people work on a site over a long time and some of them never see the fruits and nuts mature. Or a common fishery. Or urban community gardens.

One pattern that I don’t think works very well anymore is industrial agriculture, which was one of the places the USSR went wrong (and where they were copying capitalist methods).

I do think good agriculture requires people who get to know a particular piece of land very well, so you can’t do that with solely transient work forces. But it’s also true that most of the food you eat was handled by many foodchain workers, some of whom can’t afford very much of the food. So the private farmer working alone is mostly a myth anyway.

I’m not laying out a programme here, just some directions where some degree of common-ism is already evolving in the production and consumption of food, which suggests to me that food can become more of a commons.

Communism means that the workers own the production means in a decentralized common network. The state will this way dissolve.