I have been asked why I joined the National Party Club. I joined the National Party Club because I see the danger of revolution in New Zealand as so great that I think it is time for all good men to close ranks to maintain the status quo.

The New Zealand Government does not take seriously the possibility of revolution in New Zealand. I wish to establish that this possibility exists, and that it is in fact a near certainly.

A revolution is an occasion when a group of people, previously without political power, seize political power by dispossessing the original possessors of that power. In Marxism, the groups engaged in a revolution are seen as economic classes, the capitalists and the workers, and so forth.

In New Zealand there are no evident classes of this sort. New Zealand is more obviously an egalitarian society than any other, and almost as obviously a classless society.

But this fact should not lull one into the disbelief that revolution is impossible. Even in an egalitarian society power can be monopolised by a few people, so counterposing two opposed groups, those with power and those without.

Indeed, where this exists in an egalitarian society, there is no doubt that a revolution is inevitable, because it is certain that an egalitarian society must of its nature require power to be diffused among all members.

As no one would say that power is so diffused among all New Zealanders, the possibility of revolution exists.

In the broadest terms, political power is the power to direct other men. It is the power which a man exercises who is master over another man in any way.

Such power in New Zealand, in the broadest sense, is managerial. In New Zealand, one man directs another not because he has a financial advantage, or a military advantage, or an intellectual or cultural advantage. He directs that man simply because he is a manager.

Government in New Zealand is managerial. It manages New Zealanders. The managerial hierarchy runs in New Zealand down from Cabinet, to heads of departments and leaders of commerce, to branch managers, supervisors, overseers, foremen.