Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2022

ISBN:: 9781942173588

(1 review)

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.

1 edition

loppear reviewed Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O'brien

write others the world you wish for

4 stars

On the one hand, this is fictive academic non-fiction, with the conceit of oral histories to make it direct and also obviate even a latent plot or characterization. On the other hand, it is communal utopia spun from our current set of dystopias, centering imagined voices young and old across a range of questions of care and process and identity and standing up together as our world came apart and we needed each other.