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This is a bait thread but I just read Pynchon's Vineland & may have some relevant thoughts.
Noam Chomsky describes Anarcho-Syndicalism as:
“...a decentralised system of free associations ...the appropriate form of social organisation for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.”
It's a confusingly enjoyable book. If I had to describe Vineland in one word, it would be 'disassociation' in the psychological sense, but also how that might interact with freedom of association in a socio-political sense. The book is described as being about how the counter-culture was slowly subverted against itself, implying an unmasking of some kind of conspiracy, who did it and what they did. I don't see it as that, explicitly as such. Instead, I see it a stylistic demonstration of this process unfurling through lingo (strangely enough, I found the sprawling plot movements more coherent while reading it with one eye, but the fluidity of the wordplay really won me over while reading with two). If it has anything to say all to the aspiring Anarcho-Syndicalist, it will surely be met with bewilderment.
