You Can't Win Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
You Can't Win on X
You Can't Win is a podcast hosted by two wild and crazy guys, Donald (@getfiscal) and Tom (@muslimtom_). https://t.co/FpjLWjR42K

Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Daniel Guerin
Don reviews three books in the PM Press series on libertarian socialism: Daniel Guerin's For a Libertarian Communism, Kropotkin's Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and The State: Three Essays, and Voices of the Paris Commune (ed. by Mitchell Abidor). https://t.co/L0dKgyB5h2
Paperback, 1970
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1550
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Tom and Don chat about some books and shows, including Robert Musil, Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle, Ahmet Karamustafa's God's Unruly Friends, J.M. Coetzee, Joan Robinson, Wolf Hall, Copenhagen Cowboy and The Last of Us. https://t.co/bOD1oCvkSB
Paperback, 2012
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Patriot and Priest: Jean-Baptiste Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or Volume 285
Annette Chapman-Adisho
We have a semi-hopeful chat about how Ukraine is making people rethink a lot of their assumptions and then discuss the book Patriot and Priest by Annette Chapman-Adisho. https://t.co/X4hdNQT9ll
Paperback, 2019
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job
Gavin Mueller
In this episode we talk about how technology is wielded by managers against workers and consumers, often with the support of the government and unions. We discuss Richard Seymour's "The Twittering Machine" and Gavin Mueller's "Breaking Things at Work." https://t.co/5IahKJOOcY
Paperback, 2021
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The State: Its Historic Role
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Don reviews three books in the PM Press series on libertarian socialism: Daniel Guerin's For a Libertarian Communism, Kropotkin's Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and The State: Three Essays, and Voices of the Paris Commune (ed. by Mitchell Abidor). https://t.co/L0dKgyB5h2
Paperback, 1997
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Plains
Gerald Murnane
We talk about Americans coordinating attacks in Ukraine and several books Tom recently read including The Plains by Gerald Murnane. Then we chat about being weird loners and Jewish inheritances in Islam. https://t.co/7mriKDc3BZ
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Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and the State: Three Essays
Peter Kropotkin
Don reviews three books in the PM Press series on libertarian socialism: Daniel Guerin's For a Libertarian Communism, Kropotkin's Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and The State: Three Essays, and Voices of the Paris Commune (ed. by Mitchell Abidor). https://t.co/L0dKgyB5h2
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Socialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival
Paresh Chattopadhyay
Don talks about Paresh Chattopadhyay's book Socialism and Commodity Production, a libertarian communist criticism of attempts to rework Marx's economics to justify the state and money prices. https://t.co/sxeDpJvHXF
Paperback, 2019
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime
Constance A. Weaver
Tom introduces Don to "All is Clouded by Desire" by Alan Block and Constance Weaver, about transnational crime networks and financial flows. We discuss how crime seems to dwarf the traditional economy in importance and can overwhelm surface institutions. https://t.co/0yyh02tTCC
Hardcover, 2004
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
John Gray
Tom talks connections between Heaven's Gate, the author of Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus and a mysterious Iranian businessman. Then we get into questions about the limits of liberal democracy and how doomer we really are about conspiracies. https://t.co/Br4fEoJAWB
Hardcover, 1993
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book