Everything for Everyone
An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
Common Notions · Print & ebook · August 12, 2022
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments.
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- Who it’s for
- An accessible, practical-edged look at a future city organized through radical politics.
- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian
- Published
- Common Notions, August 12, 2022
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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.
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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.
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An accessible, practical-edged look at a future city organized through radical politics.
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- oral-history texture
- urban political imagination
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- fiction-histories blend
- communal worldbuilding
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| Dystopian | 97% |
|---|---|
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 60% |
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Publisher categories
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Dystopian
- Utopian Thinking
- Authors
- M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi, M.E. O'Brien
- Publisher
- Common Notions
- Published
- August 12, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic