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In May of this year, soon after I got my review copy of this book, I was parked with my partner in their old sedan in the parking lot of Nour Cafe. The fact of their sentience can now be assumed through the nature of their communication with each other about the “modeling of virtual worlds. Even in this non-capitalist reality—without wage slavery, overproduction, imperial genocide—the climate is fucked, natural disasters are rife, and organizational disagreements (about food consumption, say) and harm such as child abuse require conflict resolution. Instead, they offer a vision of community and healing that feels starkly tangible — a place and time for the long process of healing from the many traumas of the world that was, in a world so different from our own without once becoming unrecognizable. The book answers these and other questions—besides picking up trash on Monday morning, who will gestate, who will raise young people, who will teach science and repair the planet, how to create mutual accountability?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.

I mostly enjoyed the book, but the message is more one of creating a potential revolution as opposed to a cooperative. Everything for Everyone is not a dystopian end of the world, nor even a singularly perfect utopia, but something between.

Through connected and organized insurrections, some of these are dismantled through armed struggle and guerrilla tactics and cruelty, some are taken if detractors come “without property or power,” and others (like the white supremacists and federal cops) are left to fight each other and collapse as capitalism’s armies stop protecting them. Soon, she finds her niche, seeing what people need and making sure they get it, coordinating food and care for people all over the city. In the first interview, the interviewers speak with a trans woman and practitioner of “skincraft” (a noncriminalized, essential, reparative form of sex work) who has held memorials in the form of gathering oral narratives.

While evocative and inspiring, Everything tells us little we need to know if we truly want to change the system. Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. In Schneider's compelling take on the origins and future of cooperativism, working together isn't just something we do in hard times, but the key to a future characterized by abundance and distributed prosperity.Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world. Whose knowledges of facilitation, healing, conflict resolution and partying will help the population heal from its collective trauma? As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy. As Nathan Schneider documents, cooperative movements are everywhere—from Barcelona to Bologna, Nairobi to New York, Jackson, Oakland, Boulder, Detroit, and points in between.