The Disease called Politics (1962)

Theodore Roszak argues that politics is fundamentally a pathological pursuit of power that is inherently opposed to life and growth. He contends that while love sustains and nourishes life through spontaneity and immediacy, politics organizes power to control and dominate, making it an alliance with death rather than a force for human flourishing. Roszak calls for society to recognize this fatal flaw in its political obsession and find an alternative way forward.