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

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And they are struggling to bring everything in common—electricity, healthcare, tech, transportation, banks, land, food, knowledge, even whole cities.

Placed near the end of the timeline, it serves as a dizzying science fiction exposé of the potentials of biotech and ecological restoration, nurturing new forests and new creatures from the muck of our drowned cities — but woven together with a profoundly personal confrontation with mental health.

In the insurrections, there is no reason to deny beauty, especially if it doesn’t come with beauty’s own standards, especially if everyone can be a beautiful hero.

There are lots of us (especially women, and you’ll find a great number in caring professions and in the church) who have stretched the good gift of compassion too far, who are unable to see the line between caring for others and over-responsibility. For example, cooperatives do not by themselves construct either a renewed culture or an alternative political or economic system. You don’t think there is time or space for you to have needs, everyone else is obviously having a harder time than you so how could you possibly voice a desire or request?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. Sign up to receive information about events organized by e-flux at e-flux Screening Room, Bar Laika, or elsewhere. Even the longest insurrections, of May 1968, dotted many lands with little communities (like the Whole Earth) that slowly transformed into Silicon Valley, where dreams of geo-engineered utopias came to rest. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution—from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. Leftists are often accused of being against everything, but not having a vision of what we're fighting for.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles asked: “after the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning? Social reproduction is the phrase that Marxists use to talk about all the (unpaid) things we have to do to make sure that the capitalists have workers to employ.Everything for Everyone proves how our vested interests are best served by addressing our common ones. After the economic crisis that began in 2008, the cooperative movement is coming back with renewed vigor. As I have moved toward a healthier way of being I have increasingly noticed I am not alone in this way of living. The special magic of Everything for Everyone is that it combines the genres of the oral history interview with speculative utopian fiction.

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