It's a novel set in a parrarrel dimension Chile where the coup against Allende was foiled by General Pinochet, and an apparent socialist utopia has been created in few short years afterwards. A few years before the 1973 coup, the government was working together with a cybernetics researcher named Stafford Beer to implement in Chile a sort of a system similar to the proto-Internet. That actually happened and is not the author's invention, but from this real event that the author starts to invent a universe where Chile has continued to develop this seemingly wondrous project and placed itself at the forefront of world technological progress. The year is 1979 and a daughter of a self-exiled general returns to the country and unravels the truth about SYNCO (System of Information and Control).
The book is truly weird, like a retro-futuristic take on The Man in the High Castle mixed with Terry Gilliam's Brazil and a lot of BioShock (Infinite too), some The Matrix.
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5775303-synco
Trailers and a (part tongue in cheek) inspired music video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=McoE2hAii7g
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TKymw8haUiU
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gtkea52p0ys
An electro/techno/noise soundtrack to listen to on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/pn043/pn043_02_02_synco_j-moraga.mp3
I wonder why the most greedy, capitalist companies keep funding pro-communist propaganda. There must be something there. I don't believe that these multi-billion media dollar companies think: you know what would be great? Losing all our possessions and being put to the wall.
And sorry for making communism sound appealing. There's bad stuff too. Lots of it.
Everything can be sold.
If your product isn't popular enough, you've sold some T-shirts and books and made a tidy profit. If your product IS popular enough, you're a leader of the revolution and will be safe while your competitors are put against the wall.
The only loss condition is if the would-be commies actually put their money (hah) where their mouth is, and stop buying the product and getting excited for next product.
I don't quite understand your comment in the context, I thought I made it clear it's a dystopian nightmare scenario so I don't know how can you see it as "pro-communist propaganda making communism sound appealing".
I thought that was just your view. But the mere fact that a semi-communist Chile would make massive technological strides is enough to raise some eybrows.
They were using British and American technology and mind (there was no embargo).