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Everything for Everyone
An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
239 pages
A polyphonic, visionary oral history of a future revolution that finds radical hope in the ashes of capitalist collapse.
What it feels like
Reading this speculative oral history feels like sitting in a circle of survivors, listening to the raw, deeply human voices of a revolution. The pace is steady and reflective, anchored by the documentary-style format of interviews looking back at a period of intense global collapse and local insurrection. It carries a gritty but profoundly visionary mood, moving through the darkness of war, famine, and climate catastrophe to arrive at the hard-won light of a radically new social order. The prose shifts with its diverse cast—from nurses to antifascist militants—creating a polyphonic texture that feels both intimate and sweeping. It is a perfect read for those who crave politically engaged, hopeful futures built on collective survival and community resilience.
- Mood
- gritty
- resilient
- visionary
- communal
- Tone
- earnest
- reflective
- revolutionary
- hopeful
- documentary
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- collective survival · radical hope · systemic collapse · building a new world · community resilience
- The writing
- Structured as a polyphonic oral history, the prose relies on distinct, deeply human voices recounting their lived experiences.
- The arc
- Moves from the grim reality of systemic collapse and crisis to the hard-won, hopeful emergence of a collective future.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave grounded, politically engaged speculative fiction that imagines a hopeful, collective future born from the ashes of capitalism.
Content notes
- war
- famine
- economic collapse
- climate catastrophe
About the book
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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