"Humanity," said John Stuart Mill, "will never forget that there was a Socrates, who was condemned to death for conflicting with the power and the public opinion of his time."

A similar fate could be said for Wilhelm Reich, who was sent to federal prisons in America on charges that today would make any active individual smile - or laugh derisively - and there, in prison, he died ridiculed by the press and public opinion, after first witnessing his theories condemned and his books surrendered to the flames.

Freud's favorite disciple wrote Listen, Little Man in 1946 and published it in 1948. It is the cry of anguish from a great thinker who sees the seeds of fascism and totalitarianism within the common, everyday person: one who is oppressed and revolts, yet can still worship his enemies and murder his friends.

This person who feels like "the people," and who, if fortunate enough to be called the "representative" of this people, abuses his power and behaves more brutally than the ruling class that had previously crushed him.