Equality, as justice, is not a primitive concept of “dividing everything equally”... but this is equality in ownership and on the basis of this, receiving remuneration for everyone without exception for their work... and “from the labors of the righteous you will not build stone chambers for yourself” - why this is what we strive for... because the upper limiting, moral level of prosperity is a direct road to the light of the human soul...
What has let us down, if we take immediate history?
Power.
She grimaced, broke away from the people and disfigured the country.
We were equal before the law, but we were not equal in our talents and opportunities to fly high - Gorky, Sholokhov, Astafiev, Ilf and Petrov, Kataev, Polevoy, Chukovsky, Olesha, Fadeev, Leonov, Vasiliev, Paustovsky, Simonov, Erenburg, Alexey Tolstoy , Strugatsky, Platonov, Zamyatin, Marshak, Prishvin, Grossman, Serafimovich, Aitmatov, Nosov... you can take our entire cultural, creative and scientific pinnacle...
True freedom is not permissiveness, it is freedom from our slave labor for those who gave us the freedom to grab ourselves, getting from this more than a person needs.
With freedom, as permissiveness, everything is bought and sold, and morality is sold first of all...
Possessing the opportunity to have without an upper reasonable bar, especially one secured by the law of ownership, a person cannot stop, he becomes a slave to his possession and fulfills his will of gluttony.
One gluttony collides with another gluttony and sparks fly, setting the world on fire with continuous wars, blood and destruction...
This selfish and bloody world is sliding into the abyss...
We need a different kind of freedom and justice, not in words, but in deeds... it must be in the hands of the entire society... and power should be a burden, not a privilege... so as not to degenerate into new nouveau riche...
You can twist even a good idea, build a building crookedly and, as a result, collapse under pressure from outside, having at the top already in the majority of traitors to the great idea of ;;justice... the principle of “getting into something wrong” in such conditions of betrayal at the top, alas, wins...