kerrythefire 's review for:

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

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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This book is such a gem. Many of us know we need something different - a different, communal, collectivist way of orienting society... but as hard as it can be to imagine what that looks like, it can be harder to imagine what it looks like to get there. This book helps do that. It is not utopian. It is messy. It is violent. It is contradictory. And it still leaves you and humanity with many questions... and much, if not all, still un-figured out. But... it is hopeful. Because it also shows us examples of what it could look like to be beyond capitalism, beyond the strict, limiting and burdensome confines of gender and the nuclear family, beyond the worries of how to simply survive so instead we have time to create and dream. (I will note that the book was a bit limited in the disability justice space, though.)

This is such a unique book and I will tell anyone who will listen to read it, and read it with an open heart and mind. Another world is possible. We have to try.