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

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

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

M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi
9781942173588
Trade Paperback
  • Fiction / Dystopian
  • Political Science / Utopias
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
  • Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
  • Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Transgender

 Joining a long line of speculative writing that helps us to understand worlds not yet existing An Oral History of the New York Commune will appeal to readers of Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ian M. Banks, Samuel Delaney, and China Mieville among others.

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.

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