Book #28: Everything For Everyone

Imagining how a new, post-capitalist social order could happen... even here.

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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'Brien

As we move deeper into the morass of this administration—this regime—and deeper into warm weather and flexing our organizing muscles, I hope that this book pick offers a galvanizing vision for us.

This speculative fiction novel is set 30 years in the future after “war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments.” And then, a revolution in New York City forges a new social order, led by workers—nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants—out of the ashes of capitalist collapse. This book is written as an oral history of these organizers, sharing how they survived their many crises to sow the seeds of a new world. Co-writers O’Brien and Abdelhadi come from academic and activist backgrounds in communist theory, LGBTQ+ movements, Palestinian liberation, Black Lives Matter, and work in HIV/AIDS.

Book club dates: Sunday, May 18 (virtual); Monday, May 19 (in-person)

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