I’m rereading Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. An important book, but I quibble with something he says early on:

What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

I think that’s a shallow reading of The Prince, which, read with Machiavelli’s other work, suggests to me th...