Well verse 53 twists the knife

https://twitter.com/yoginho/status/1244892104196870146

Not really, that chapter is more about irresponsible nobles. Starving the farmers and consequently others is rather characteristic of communism, I would say. A better chapter to make your point would be chapter 80. But if all one tries to use the tao te ching for is scoring points for or against some ism, a large point has been missed.

Dao-ism is the only ism I see. It’s not about scoring points, it is trying to live in accord with the Dao.

80? That is about government!

What about 19??

Give up ingenuity, renounce profit, And bandits and thieves will disappear.

29?

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe it can be done.

66?

Because he does not compete, He does not meet competition.

> Starving the farmers and consequently others is rather characteristic of communism,

You're confusing communism with dictatorship. Communism is about communal ownership, and likely some version of worker-ownership ("own the means of production"). If the system, or its leaders, are starving the farmers, and the farmers and their customers can't actively negotiate against that practice, you don't have communism at all.