The Disposessed, by Ursula K. Leguin. Before I read it, I thought capitalism was the only way to organize people and resources on a broad scale. I couldn't ima

The Disposessed, by Ursula K. Leguin. Before I read it, I thought capitalism was the only way to organize people and resources on a broad scale. I couldn't imagine anything else working particularly well, and I thought anarchists were people who want to break things and cause chaos. The Disposessed showed me how anarcho-syndicalism actually works, and gave me a framework for understanding its benefits and challenges and why it hasn't taken off broadly yet. My whole life is more or less oriented around those ideas now.