Other participants included political activist Stokely Carmichael, psychiatrist R. D. Laing and poet Allan Ginsberg.
We are dealing with the dialectics of liberation (actually a redundant phrase, because I believe that all dialectic is liberation) and not only liberation in an intellectual sense, but liberation involving the mind and the body, liberation involving entire human existence… Think of Hegel: liberation in the sense of progress and freedom on the historical scale… It is liberation from the repressive, from a bad, a false system … liberation by forces developing within such a system… And liberation by virtue of the contradiction generated by the system, precisely because it is a bad, a false system.
—Marcuse, “Liberation from the Affluent Society” (1967)
