Also in communist theories equality occupies an important place. One honors the point of view that, concerning their necessities of life, all individuals should be absolutely equal. So everybody has the right to the same goods, whatever someone's material or cultural needs. Actually this idea isn't so very difficult to realize, because as a rule people in communist countries perish with poverty and need. Shortly after the revolution in Cuba surgeons and pianists were forced to join the harvesting of sugar cane, a stupidity that also originated from the communist holy doctrine.
Equality means the same quantity of goods, material goods of course.
This is typical for modern western thinking, which is characterized by a masculine way of reasoning, a mode of thought which is highly developed these days. It causes extremely refined sciences, but in a certain respect it is very short-sighted. The notion 'equality' namely doesn't concern a quantity but a value. So equality means that there are equal values. Reality however doesn't know anything of values.