As a political power, as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, its presence is hardly yet suspected. He spoke largely of America, but we can speak thus of all the regimes of this world. We need activists persons of republican and Kalotic character, tutors everywhere. To talk of political systems requires naming them. This is about as useful today as dividing the elements of physics into earth, air, fire and water.
All classifications have their uses and abuses.
But in reforming the behavior of states and groups, the major shaft of analysis has to be their characteristic drive. We sum them up in the term, Kalos. These needs must be found through large-scale and rapid change of revolutionary proportions, by means which, if not violent, must be forceful. Most states of today are dystrocracies, that is, misorganized for modernity from the viewpoint both of the inhabitants and of the outside world. 2 Distinguishable from dystrocracies are many countries whose regimes have some special drive that is ungovernable thus far, but that removes them from the materially hopeless position of the dystrocracy.