I can't say I really understand the intended meaning behind the story. The ending is obviously fantastical and the author was a socialist, but it also depicts a

I can't say I really understand the intended meaning behind the story. The ending is obviously fantastical and the author was a socialist, but it also depicts an absurd and brutal form of social equity. Is the whole thing supposed to be sarcastic in the sense of "look what those silly capitalists/individualists think of us and themselves"?