“I am a communist. Communism is when a person overcomes his personal self and turns into more than just ‘me’. - Yegor Betoy. Equality the protagonist in Ayn Rand's Anthem lives his life like this for 20 years. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, something that his society lived by. Anthem is about what it would be like if communism took over the world, Equality is a 20 year old man that want to be individual but he can not because of how society works. In Anthem Equality becomes independent from the rest of society and learns the word “I” while everyone else is stuck in some twisted way of thinking that has been brought on by society. Anthem and communism are the same type of society due to the fact that they both have abolition
