David Cooper 
The Dialectics of Liberation 

The now legendary
Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David Cooper,
The Dialectics of Liberation compiles interventions from congress contributors Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Sweezy, and others, to explore the roots of social violence.



Against a backdrop of rising student frustration, racism, class inequality, and environmental degradation-a setting familiar to readers today-the conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary momentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass society.
The Dialectics of Liberation captures the rise of a forceful style of political activity that came to characterize the following years.

About the author

Stokely Carmichael was a revolutionary leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. He later adopted the name Kwame Ture.He was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He later joined the Black Panther Party and became its ‘Honorary Prime Minister.’ In 1967, Carmichael co-authored Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America with Charles V. Hamilton. He also helped to establish the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and worked as an aide to Guinea’s prime minister, Sekou Toure.Carmichael died of cancer on November 15th, 1998.