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

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The platform cooperative enabled them to advocate for a commitment to realizing concrete forms of democratic ownership: An Uber owned by its drivers. This kind of internationalism inflects all the interviews; the further you get into the book the more already referenced struggles reappear as people learn from one another’s tragedies and successes. Yet, for years now, the utopian imagination has been not only pronounced dead, but also already transformed from a corpse to a souvenir. Architecture announcements cover current architecture and design projects, symposia, exhibitions, and publications from all over the world.

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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. The twelve denizens of the world whence Abdelhadi and O’Brien are reporting back are survivors and veterans of exhausting, traumatizing, bloody, unforgettable, complicated, and beautiful transformations. Production is what happens at the factory or the warehouse, where most of us probably imagine "worker’s struggles" to take place.

I mostly enjoyed the book, but the message is more one of creating a potential revolution as opposed to a cooperative. Like the best utopian fiction, Everything for Everyone is also a startling work of political theory: it gives us the opportunity, as all utopias do, to learn about our own desires and hopes for a way out of our current conjuncture. Everything for Everyone is a corrective, a sweeping vision of the type of world and society we imagine can and will provide for us all, abundantly.