>There are tactics I call socialist tactics.

No, do not call them "socialist" tactics since it gives quite the wrong impression. They are just "Realpolitik". That said, i agree completely with your post, it is how people play games to get what they want. We just have to learn and beat them at it without moralizing.

Second Robert Ringer's books. A good follow up is his other book Action!: Nothing happens until something moves.