"Taking Liberties Cults and Capitalism"

An article on Synanon by Ann Neumann, visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at  New York University:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/taking-liberties

See also, “The Social Development of the Synanon Cult: The Managerial Strategy of Organizational Transformation” by Richard Ofshe, University of California, Berkeley:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3709903?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents