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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 Paperback – August 2, 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.
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.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCommon Notions
- Publication dateAugust 2, 2022
- Dimensions5 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches
- ISBN-10194217358X
- ISBN-13978-1942173588
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“A really fascinating glimpse into a future New York City after a revolution has transformed the US and much of the world into an antifascist, communist utopia…necessary and empowering, providing a hypothetical foundation for an ideal future.“—Buzzfeed, "34 New Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down"
"Every socialist needs to read this book. Every abolitionist, every Marxist, every anarchist, every revolutionary needs to read this book. Every person who has ever wondered how the world will function after the final retirement of the market, the commodity form, money, wages, rent, coercive gender roles, prisons, police, class, nation states, borders, profit, and in general the dominating power of any humans over any others…It’s a book that will engage seasoned organizers, well-read academics, and street-level agitators. It also could serve quite well as a dazzling introduction for newly politicizing folks who would benefit from a clear end-goal and would want to know what could be accomplished by the movements for human liberation.”—Spectre Journal
“[Everything for Everyone] challenges us to not just write fiction about revolution but to make books that practice the kinds of collaboration necessary to make revolution…This book is an uncompromising, anticolonial, profoundly queer and trans, buoying, addictive, and wholly original creation…Everything for Everyone has no patience with docile truisms about how we are supposed to write. Instead, it’s a shot across the bow for contemporary fiction, raising the bar on how to crystallize utopian longings in literary form.“—BOMB Magazine
“But if you come to Everything for Everyone for the politics, stay for the writing. 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. Each of the interviewees and interviewers has an entirely unique and authentic voice. The book is utterly plausible as the archival project it claims to be, while also telling gripping stories and slipping in details to delight sci-fi fans (a space elevator in Quito! Sentient algae-based AI! Augmented reality implants for dance parties!).“—TruthOut
“Charts dizzying, delightful new futures for science fiction, urban planning, and engaged social practice. I spent 15 years as a community organizer and never dreamed of seeing something that so bravely, brilliantly combines liberational nonfiction and radical documentary with the exuberance of the best speculative storytelling.“ —Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City and The Art of Starving
“Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien’s tall tales of the future draw on real experiences of the past and present. The book’s multiple narratives, equal parts hope and pain, merge into a prayer for collective survival and for the eventual flourishing of our powers of love and invention. Voices from as-yet-unlived lives instill faith that our becoming is not yet done. Abdelhadi and O’Brien have created a vivid image of the possibility that we will one day make a home of the world.” —Hannah Black
“The special magic of Everything for Everyone is that it combines the genres of the oral history interview with speculative utopian fiction. Oral histories can show how in their everyday lives ordinary people can make the world. Utopian fiction can show the worlds we might want to be making. Every cook, or sex worker, can govern. And this is the life they might build from the ruins of this civilization, such as it is. Such a pleasure to feel one could be making the world over with them.” —McKenzie Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street
“Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien are changing the game of what the novel is and what the novel can be. Much as James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Imani Perry did with the epistolary form in non-fiction, Everything for Everyone uses speculative oral history to expand and explode the limits of what fiction can do. Their imagined oral histories from many parties help us understand the present from many possible points of view in the future looking back, like Rashômon meets House of Leaves. In Everything for Everyone, binaries (of male-versus-female, fiction-versus-non-fiction, past-versus-future) are irrelevant compared to something much more interesting and important that Abdelhadi and O’Brien seek to illustrate: truth, and the way we might find liberation in it.” —Steven W. Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass
“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. I’m really bummed out by the fact that I’ll be 82—hopefully!—when their fictional revolution kicks off and dead by the time the dust settles. Exciting to read something hopeful, intersectional and an antidote to our dystopian doldrums.” —Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation
“In this genre-bending work of utopian fiction, O'Brien and Abdelhadi imagine a world that might emerge from the ashes of our own. Part speculative social science, part abolitionist manifesto, it explores the social forms and political possibilities of life after capitalism—the novel ways of organizing life, doing gender, and coping with the psychic costs of transformation that may follow the inevitable crises of capital and climate that lie in our future. Like the best utopian fiction, Everything for Everyone is also a startling work of political theory: it gives us the opportunity, as all utopias do, to learn about our own desires and hopes for a way out of our current conjuncture.” —Katrina Forrester, author of In the Shadow of Justice
“Leftists are often accused of being against everything, but not having a vision of what we're fighting for. Everything for Everyone is a corrective, a sweeping vision of the type of world and society we imagine can and will provide for us all, abundantly. Not all beautiful novels are invested in social restructuring, and not all social restructuring is envisaged in novels, but here we have exactly their meeting point: a beautiful novel bristling with the necessary changes we must make to survive on this planet. The future has sex in it, and community; it has food and labor and joy. It has trauma and memories of the harm, the nightmare, of capitalist precarity. The future is sure to exist; will it have us in it? Everything for Everyone imagines that it will, and, given this remarkable vision, this perpetual possibility, it's now our work to live up to it.” —Joseph Osmundson, author of Virology
“Everything for Everyone is a window into a possible future and a powerful antidote to our present moment’s ubiquitous moods of anti-utopianism, despair, nostalgia, and capitalist-realism…this must-read speculative fiction…chronicle[s] the first stages of the abolition of the family; the history of the ecological restoration projects and interplanetary technologies that might render our planet liveable and leisurely; the invention of real democracy; and the armed conflagrations that were necessary along the way. So, if you have ever wondered to yourself, What will the triumph of indigenous land struggles, the overthrow of colonial occupations, and the fall of capitalism look like? Which parts of New York would be at the forefront of a communist revolution, and which would double down into religious, hyper-patriarchal fascism? Whose knowledges of facilitation, healing, conflict resolution and partying will help the population heal from its collective trauma?—then this superb novel is the book for you.”—Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation
About the Author
Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist, and artist based in Chicago, IL. Her research as faculty at the University of Chicago focuses on gender differences in the community trajectories of Muslim Americans. Abdelhadi has also spent many years organizing. She has been involved in the movement for Palestinian liberation, Black Lives Matter, counter-surveillance and abolitionism, marxist feminist mobilization as well as workplace struggles. 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. Abdelhadi maintains an active creative practice that includes performance art and essay and poetry writing. Her writing has appeared in Jacobin, Muftah, and other publications.
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- Publisher : Common Notions (August 2, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 194217358X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1942173588
- Item Weight : 9.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #85,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #97 in Communism & Socialism (Books)
- #1,144 in Dystopian Fiction (Books)
- #1,744 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books)
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(Spoiler: YES! The fight is worth it!)
On the whole I thought the ideas presented are plausible, but a little optimistic. It's certainly thought provoking and well written. A few events that they portray were quite a stretch for me, but that makes it interesting. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in speculating about what might come after our current systems of government and commerce fail.
The form is ingenious and innovative -- twelve interviews with participants, in twelve chapters, to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the New York Commune in 2072.
The scenario is a combination of economic collapse and climate crisis causing the fall of governments around the world to insurrection. The Levant is first, in 2041, followed by the Andes in 2043. Xinjiang is liberated in 2045, and both China and India by 2047.
The U.S. is among the last to fall. The U.S. has invaded Iran in 2040 and is involved in a protracted, doomed war. The Lars-47 pandemic kills 600 million by 2051. These two events spark the insurrection in NYC in 2052.
The stories of what becomes a Global Insurrection are not naive dreams -- the fighting is fierce, and certainly not completely non-violent. The ensuing process is one of *communization,* leading directly to egalitarian. popular control without going through any intermediate stages of state socialism. Key terms are defined in the introduction: "[t]he global, communist phase of insurrection is characterized by four closely related qualities: communization, abolition, the assembly, and the commune" (12).
This more closely resembles anarchism than what most people, even on the left, understand as communism. But it is very much what Marx had in mind, with the much greater development of capitalism and the working class to make it more plausible than it was in the mid-19th century and the Paris Commune -- communal ownership without a state, without capitalism or wage labor, and so without exploitation.
A three-way fight is part of the U.S. scenario, with fascists taking on both the emerging Commune as well as the capitalist state. This is astute -- it is bound to be the case in any future I can imagine.
While the climate/ecological crisis is clearly part of the scenario, it could have been more developed. For instance, the Commune is able to feed everyone, but if the land, including agricultural land, has been devastated, it is not clear how this is possible.
Traditional gender is part of what is overthrown. This is excellent, and has certainly been a major feature of past revolutions. Abolishing the traditional family makes sense to me. The idea that 40% of young people in the Commune would want to be transgender is certainly something to ponder. Exploration of the transgender idea always makes me wonder why the gender binary is preserved, though. Why the need to switch back and forth? Why not abolish gender entirely?
One of the authors is a psychotherapist, and trauma features prominently in the accounts of the participants: "[W]e began to understand a different causal force at work linking the commune to the working through of trauma: the collective agency of the commune, specifically, was essential to this healing ... [t]he experience of successful collective action, however violent and chaotic, enabled participants to imagine and create new forms of love and solidarity, of being together with each other, and ultimately of healing" (7).
"Everything for Everyone" is a beautiful and inspiring novel for all who fiercely want a better world!
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No hay ninguna entrevista con ningún superviviente que hubiera estado del lado de la policía que mencionan como represora y asesina. No, todo se inclina hacia el lado que los autores quieren explotar argumentalmente y por eso el libro nunca despega ni dice nada que merezca la pena recordar.
El libro llegó en perfecto estado y no me sentí tan decepcionado con adquirirlo porque solo me costó 77 pesos estando en oferta.
Reviewed in Mexico on April 8, 2024
No hay ninguna entrevista con ningún superviviente que hubiera estado del lado de la policía que mencionan como represora y asesina. No, todo se inclina hacia el lado que los autores quieren explotar argumentalmente y por eso el libro nunca despega ni dice nada que merezca la pena recordar.
El libro llegó en perfecto estado y no me sentí tan decepcionado con adquirirlo porque solo me costó 77 pesos estando en oferta.