stanley diamond (january 4, 1922 in new york city, ny – march 31, 1991 in new york city, ny) was an american poet and anthropologist. as a young man, he identified as a poet, and his disdain for the fascism of the 1930s greatly influenced his thinking. diamond was a professor at several universities, spending most of his career at the new school. he wrote several books and founded "dialectical anthropology", a marxist anthropology journal, in 1975.