Everything for Everyone

An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072

De: M.E. O’Brien, Eman Abdelhadi

Narrado por: Charli Burrow, Soneela Nankani

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.

©2022 M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi (P)2024 Tantor

this could (will) happen

this collection of stories explores the "What if's" as we proceed along our current trajectory.

A MUST Read!

"Everything for Everyone" is an extraordinary glimpse into a world transformed—one that feels both radically imaginative and deeply human. This speculative fiction novel imagines a future where capitalism has collapsed, and communal, egalitarian societies have taken its place. Through its oral histories, it offers a vision of life after capitalism, where care, equity, and collaboration replace systems of oppression and exploitation.
Every page left me thinking, I want to go to there. But it also left me wondering—can we get there without the war, upheaval, and destruction? Could we, in 2025, begin to learn and build now, rather than looking back from 2052, piecing together after the collapse? This book doesn’t just imagine a better world—it challenges us to ask why we’re waiting to create it.