"Humanity," said John Stuart Mill, "will never forget that there was a Socrates, and he was condemned to death because he clashed with authority and the public opinion of his time."

Something similar could be said about Wilhelm Reich, who was sent to federal prisons in America on charges that today would make any active person smile - or laugh - and there, in prison, he died ridiculed by the press and public opinion, after first witnessing his theories being condemned and his books being burned.

Freud's beloved student wrote Listen, Little Man in 1946, and published it in 1948. It is the cry of anguish of a great thinker, who sees the seeds of fascism and totalitarianism within the common, everyday person: the one who is oppressed and rebels, and yet can bow to his enemies and murder his friends. Who feels like "the people," and if he happens to be appointed as a "representative" of these people, abuses his power and behaves more brutally than the ruling class that had crushed him until then.