The Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation, held in London in 1967, was a uniq
ue expression of the politics of modern dissent, in which existential psychiatri
sts, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss the
key social issues of the following decade. Edited by David Cooper, this volume
compiles speeches by Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Swee
zy, and others. The collection explores the roots of violence in society. Agains
t the backdrop of rising student frustrations, racism, class inequality, and env
ironmental degradation, this conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary mo
mentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass
society.
