" The idea of perfect equality, i.e. an equal share of all goods for everybody, is not only unfeasible economically but is contradictory in itself: for perfect equality can only be imagined under a system of extreme despotism, but despotism itself presupposes inequality at least in such basic advantages as participation in power and access to information. "

― Leszek Kołakowski , Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown