Welcome to the future! Necessity is the mother of invention. It is necessity that led people to communism -- the need to combat the inhuman conditions of the Industrial Revolution, the need to oppose the arrogance of the robber barons, and the need to end their suicidal addiction to war. And it is necessity that prompts us to rediscover and reinvent communism today -- the need to combat the arrogance of the neo-cons, the need to bury their inane stereotypes, the need to breathe new life and intelligence into our political discussions.