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

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Matt does a great job introducing the topic of coop's but then gets lost in the digital counter culture getting bogged down in the more revolutionary aspects of cooperatives.

Climate refugees are welcomed freely into communes across North America and elsewhere; systems of community self-defense and preservation are in place and organized collectively; accountability functions to protect victims and mitigate violence.People have always fought to forge economies based on cooperation and creativity, rather than domination and exclusion. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Everything for Everyone is influenced by a concatenation of communal forms — some historical, like protests and riots, and others that have been part of the infrastructural planning of existing communes.

DECADES AFTER THE fall of the Paris Commune, William Morris’s narrator in News from Nowhere dreams of a future where the commodity form has been abolished: “If I could but see a day of it,” he remarks yearningly; “if I could but see it!Is the platform cooperative and its promise of a business model for the 21st century the seed of an answer to our systemic issues? This is a magisterial coverage of the cooperative commonwealth - its practicalities, its failings, and its promise. Or, consider the electrical cooperatives of the Deep South, which arguably have stymied economic and racial justice, even though they offer the potential for justice—this is a potential which the incredible organizers of One Voice and their Electric Cooperative Leadership Institute have seized upon by mobilizing poor black residents in Mississippi to take back their cooperatives from their sedimented white leadership. Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself.