Like I'm pretty sure the conclusion I had was "oh haha I see your point mr. Vonnegut, too much equality can indeed be a bad thing!"
And I definitely don't remember my teacher suggesting anything about it being viewable as satire of red scare paranoia either
Whatever his intentions, Vonnegut made a masterwork of anticommunist propaganda.
Yeah like this story would be hilarious copypasta on this site but instead it's in the same vein of "1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual!!11!11!!"
Anything can be made into anticommunist propaganda if that's the intention of the one receiving it.