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

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Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). The ‘conceit’ is this: after decades of climate disaster, war, and economic collapse, capitalism was torn down, and the way of the commune took its place. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world’s governments.

Production is what happens at the factory or the warehouse, where most of us probably imagine "worker’s struggles" to take place. Kawkab Hassan is a Palestinian born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who cannot find a job and instead finds meaning in travelling to the Levant to participate in the Last Intifada. History can be rendered differently if we revise and reuse the utopianisms that offer total change without rejecting the apocalypse of our present.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. But rather than a tidy solution, pain and anger at the destruction is felt more than anything else, and the reader does not get a clear, straightforward narration. It is a future history of our own world in the mid-twenty-first century told as a series of twelve fictional oral history interviews conducted with a variety of New Yorkers in the late 2060s and 70s.

In the 1930s, the United States managed to chart a narrow third course—a “new deal” that struck a fragile balance of corporate and union power—between industrial capitalism and the welfare state. Take worker cooperatives, for instance: While intuitively appealing, the truth is that no country has ever been able to create a worker-cooperative sector that includes more than a very tiny percentage of the workforce. D. student at The University of Calgary and the author of both What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019) and Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020). He holds an HBA from The University of Toronto, and a Master’s degree in English Lit from Ryerson University.

Everything for Everyone does not traffic in ruination, although there is enough debris for cities and minds to be submerged in the horror. It lets us imagine what can feel unimaginable in this moment—a total reorganization of social relations toward our mutual survival and the dismantling of the ruling death cult.