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

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It is a book for everyone and a book for our times: read it, share it, but don’t just talk about it. The book doesn’t shy away from dealing with the fact that New Yorkers are unlikely to get the worst brunt of the military blowback, especially compared to the periphery of the US’s internal empire.

I had no idea I was a post-revolution speculative fiction fangirl till I started reading Everything for Everyone, which kicks off with a food riot at the Hunts Point Market led by a sex worker.Barring Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire, I can’t think of another author who uses an academic form to achieve a literary result so successfully. Production is what happens at the factory or the warehouse, where most of us probably imagine "worker’s struggles" to take place.

You can glance at someone you’ve never met and read them like a book; you know what makes people tick. After the economic crisis that began in 2008, the cooperative movement is coming back with renewed vigor. Like Schneider, for whom “economy is a form of culture,” I believe that questions of culture and the institutional forms that produce and sustain it are essential for any serious political vision. The most frustrating moments of Everything are these—the ones where Schneider meets the hardest questions and falls back on rhetorical equivocation to avoid answering them.Instead, they offer a vision of community and healing that feels starkly tangible — a place and time for the long process of healing from the many traumas of the world that was, in a world so different from our own without once becoming unrecognizable. The fictional oral history of a commune yet to exist imagines what forms human agency could take to change their world and their circumstances, how it could be contingent and polyphonous, always in process of unfolding and becoming. The turning point of the fighting comes in May of 2052, when the uprising captures the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx—the world’s largest such facility, at least in 2022—Ms.

O’Brien, as the interviewer, notes how Zhou is drawing a “parallel between integrating different parts of your mind, and the integration of human-use and ecological systems”.

As another historian, working for the Mid-Atlantic Free Assembly, tells them: “There is a deep link between human subjectivity and the labor process that we’re just beginning to unravel, twenty years after the end of the commodity form.

There are lots of us (especially women, and you’ll find a great number in caring professions and in the church) who have stretched the good gift of compassion too far, who are unable to see the line between caring for others and over-responsibility. Everything for Everyone presents a world in which everyone can become someone else, catch their breath, and then do it again. There’s a sense of genius imbued in every page, but it’s not patronising or intimidating, just inspiring and hope-full. By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments.She is currently co-coordinating the Muslim Alliance for Gender and Sexual Diversity, a national organization that provides support and builds community by and for Queer Muslims. They worked at a for-profit social services provider, and their new boss had essentially forbidden them from helping the people they were, in theory, originally hired to help.

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