Just finished Player of things by Iain M Banks.

Set in post scarcity anarcho communist society.

and writer is a Chad

In late 2004, Banks joined a group of UK politicians and media figures campaigning to have Prime Minister Tony Blair impeached after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In protest, he cut up his passport and posted it to 10 Downing Street. In a Socialist Review interview, Banks explained that his passport protest occurred after he had "abandoned the idea of crashing my Land Rover through the gates of Fife dockyard, after spotting the guys armed with machine guns.

In 2010, Banks called for a cultural and educational boycott of Israel after the Gaza flotilla raid incident

instructed his agent to turn down any further book translation deals with Israeli publishers