To get a feel for the 60's, read Dancin': a compilation of radical essays and texts from the period. They make it clear that there's no liberty or freedom without the abolition of all the misery producing authoritarian institutions that make up the established order: jails, armies, work, governments, schools, churches, capitalism, the commodity spectacle, electoral politics and of the master/slave (employer/employee) classes. They offer an end to the reality/misery principle through the tenants of radicalism of all sorts and surrealism that exalts the pleasure principle. Dancin' also gives us a peek at the personalities and internal struggles involved in emerging revolutionary movements of the day.
Editors Rosemont and Radcliffe today continue their revolutionary zeal so that we realize that these ideas are eternal, that they are far more than hiccoughs in history, interesting but over except as blueprints for miserablists on how to keep down the working class. We realize that in the face of globalization, corporate domination, the rise of political and religious fundamentalism, we need these ideas more than ever. You get caught up just in the exhilaration of Dancin's ideas of joyful living, imagine the exhilaration to come upon their reification. With the continued spread of Dancin's antidotes to human enslavement, we can we bury this corpse that's been offered to us by the established ruling class as life.
Of all the impossibles that ever were, the impossibility of human liberty couldn't be more possible. As Percy Shelley wrote "Arise like lions after slumber/In unvanquishable number/ Shake your chains to earth like dew/Which in sleep have falled [sic] on you/Ye are many/they are few." Why wait? Shake off your chains here and now, instead of heading to the salt mines, let's together head straight to the streets and once there, do some Dancin'!