In the best tradition of science fiction, it is always a little, three-toed, one-eyed, green skinned creature with a radio antenna sticking out of the top of his skull that steps out of a flying saucer space ship and says to the first American he meets: "Take me to your leader." Have you ever asked yourself, if you were confronted by such a question, just where or to whom would you take this visitor from another planet? I suspect that many of us would be forced to answer: "I’d be glad to take you to our leader, if I only knew who our leader was myself."

May 1 is the anniversary of the Communist Revolution, and throughout the Communist world, the theme of the revolution is reiterated again and again, as it has been for the past sixty years: "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to …