Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072, Second Edition (Nonaligned) [9781945335914]

Overview

An unforgettable oral history of the future, where ordinary people recount the revolution that transformed New York—and the world.

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.

Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

Blending speculative fiction, political imagination, and documentary storytelling, Everything for Everyone has become a landmark work of revolutionary futurism. This expanded second edition includes new interviews from the future, a reading group guide, and an appendix introducing Project 2052: Revolutionary Dispatches, an evolving collaborative world inspired by the book.