Communists hate farmers. Farmers represent hard work, self sufficiency, and conservative planning.
During the Soviet era independent land owning farmers in Ukraine were promised near autonomy and were given nothing but torture, repression, starvation, murder, and hatred by the Soviet leadership.
Remember this next time Marxists of today rail against "rural bigots" or whatever the current slur term is. Remember this when they claim to make lists of wrong thinkers who will face a reckoning in the future. This has already happened before and it will be even more ugly this time around.