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You Can't Win is a podcast hosted by two wild and crazy guys, Donald (@getfiscal) and Tom (@muslimtom_). https://t.co/FpjLWjR42K

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Book Cover for: Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, Daniel Guerin

Anarchism: From Theory to Practice

Daniel Guerin
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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
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Book Cover for: God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1550, Ahmet T. Karamustafa

God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1550

Ahmet T. Karamustafa
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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
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Book Cover for: Patriot and Priest: Jean-Baptiste Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or Volume 285, Annette Chapman-Adisho

Patriot and Priest: Jean-Baptiste Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or Volume 285

Annette Chapman-Adisho
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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
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Book Cover for: Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job, Gavin Mueller

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job

Gavin Mueller
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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
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Book Cover for: The State: Its Historic Role, Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

The State: Its Historic Role

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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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
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Book Cover for: The Plains, Gerald Murnane

The Plains

Gerald Murnane
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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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Book Cover for: Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and the State: Three Essays, Peter Kropotkin

Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and the State: Three Essays

Peter Kropotkin
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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
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Book Cover for: Socialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival, Paresh Chattopadhyay

Socialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival

Paresh Chattopadhyay
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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
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Book Cover for: All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime, Constance A. Weaver

All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime

Constance A. Weaver
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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)
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Book Cover for: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships, John Gray

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships

John Gray
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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
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