Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, Edward Luttwak (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 1968). First things first: you need to get the revised, second edition of this book. Why? Because the introduction to the second edition is an excuse for the author to brag about all the bloodstained and bullet-riddled copies of the first edition that have been found among the personal effects of palace security chiefs, spymasters, and air force officers. Perhaps, he gloats, they should have read it more carefully, or perhaps they should have waited for the second edition.
Great job distilling the principles from one domain (military coups) and applying them to different ones (business startups)! Very engaging, insightful, and well-written essay!
I think your definition of the opposition of Left and Right is good, but another ideological separation is that of openness and equality on the Left vs. closedness and inequality (possibly hierarchy) on the Right. The opposition between capitalism and the Left is then that free market forces will necessarily lead to inequality, as those better at playing marbles will end up with most of the marbles. As you say though there are other oppositions. Free-market capitalism might be opposed to traditional anti-usury laws, or to nationalistic economic protectionism, in which case it might appear leftist.
Great job distilling the principles from one domain (military coups) and applying them to different ones (business startups)! Very engaging, insightful, and well-written essay!
I think your definition of the opposition of Left and Right is good, but another ideological separation is that of openness and equality on the Left vs. closedness and inequality (possibly hierarchy) on the Right. The opposition between capitalism and the Left is then that free market forces will necessarily lead to inequality, as those better at playing marbles will end up with most of the marbles. As you say though there are other oppositions. Free-market capitalism might be opposed to traditional anti-usury laws, or to nationalistic economic protectionism, in which case it might appear leftist.