[ido]

Look into The Dispossessed[0] and Walkaway[1] for descriptions of (somewhat) utopian Anarcho-Syndicalism.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604388-walkaway

[noir_lord]

Thanks, checkout The Polity series by Neal Asher, he's the only one who had come close to matching Banks but in a slightly darker universe and he world builds like no-one else I've read, the Prador are a brilliant conception.