Those who surrender liberty for equality will ultimately forfeit both.
This represents history's most brutal delusion: the state (or the proletariat) seizing the means of production and systematically allocating all resources.
1. The Negation of Self-Interest as an Intrinsic Human Trait
When individuals who exert 100% of their capacity receive the same food rations as those who exert only 10%, humanity invariably opts to exert only 10% effort. By denying the self-interest intrinsically hardwired into the human brain, Communism inevitably precipitated widespread famine and necessitated a Gulag (penal camp) system far more extensive than that of the Nazis, all in the service of purging dissenting elements.