One time I was having lunch with a man in a Chicago Loop restaurant. The waitress came to our table, offered him the menu and asked: "Well, what would you like for lunch;" "I don’t quite know," replied my companion, "but whatever it is, I’m sure that you won’t have it." We never quite get over that kind of childishness, do we? How many people know what they want in life? Try asking them some time, and you will hear a hodgepodge of half-formed, ill-defined ambiguities. The simple truth is that most people don’t have the foggiest notion of what their desires in life really are.

The philosophy of Communism dialectical materialism is accepted by about half of the people in the civilized world; and yet, the basic premise of that philosophy is false - the assumption that human beings want most …