The Silence of the Bought Intellectuals

Recently, I read the memoirs of Arthur Miller — the famous American playwright and husband of Marilyn Monroe. Among his revelations was the confession that he and Marilyn were under surveillance by intelligence agencies. They lived under pressure, in fear that Arthur might be arrested or even eliminated. It was, in fact, Queen Elizabeth of England who offered them refuge and protection. Her action was astonishing: unlike the so-called “free” American humanists, she showed true solidarity.
At the same time, I’ve been listening to Erich Fromm — his Art of Loving, his reflections on freedom as maturity, on love as an active force, on personal responsibility. But Fromm — like most thinkers of his time — was silent about the most important thing: politics as a system for destroying the human being.
Fromm fled Nazi Germany, wrote about the escape from freedom, but once in the United States, he said nothing about the new form of fascism — more refined, hidden, institutional. He spoke little of how the American system deforms the soul, violates rights, turns the individual into an object. He chose abstraction and ethics over exposure and confrontation. He left — first to Canada, then to Switzerland — and never returned to that subject. Just like many others.
Not a word — about the CIA, torture, domestic surveillance, or the repression of dissent. All of this was happening. And still is. But we didn’t learn about it from Fromm.
One of the few real truth-tellers who did speak up was Michael Parenti.
He called things by their real names: a secret war against the population, poisoning, radiation, pressure, blackmail, defamation, the systematic elimination of dissidents. In a country that calls itself the “bastion of democracy,” there exists a sophisticated system of total control — no less terrifying, and sometimes even worse, than an open dictatorship.
And what happened? Parenti was silenced. He’s not published, not quoted, not invited. They’re afraid of him. Because he tells the truth.
Formally — democracy. In reality — a technocratic dictatorship. Any dissent is seen as a threat. A person with an independent opinion is already a “radical,” a “separatist,” “a danger.” And the full machinery can be turned against them: finances, medicine, television. No trial. No explanation. No noise.
Fromm preached love. But who will love those cast aside by the system?;Miller — a man saved by the English queen, not by American democracy. Parenti — a man who was saved by no one, but at least he did not stay silent. As a result, he became a dissident, forced to leave the country, and now lives in Spain.
Today, he’s over 90. He lives in Spain. One of the few who survived — and preserved his dignity.
I’m not surprised that no one responded to my letters, articles, or book. I was openly harassed from the end of 1998 through 2005. In 2006, I was poisoned or irradiated. And all of this — with the consent of those who should have protected me: mentors, church leaders, international organizations. American television turned the harassment into a show. Then Russian television joined in — though I never involved it. Russian actors, the so-called “elite,” came onstage with black ribbons — not in mourning for the victim, but in support of the violence.
That is not something one forgets.
The silence of intellectuals is not a mistake. It is a system. And it is always on the side of power.

Harassment as a Model of Governance: A Universal Machine of Suppression
Methods of suppression, bullying, and social isolation operate both in the U.S. and in Russia.  Who learned from whom — doesn’t matter. The system reproduces itself. The president in the White House or the Kremlin — is not a leader, but a hostage. The real power lies with the bureaucracy, the intelligence agencies, the unelected.
The intelligentsia — intimidated. The public — paralysed. Cruelty — legalised. And the human being — reduced to an experiment.

Parenti. Miller. Fromm. And the Geneva Convention.
Arthur Miller described it as a theatrical process: Salem, denunciations, fear, the machinery of lies. Fromm saw it as an internal flight from responsibility. But it was Parenti who exposed the hidden structure: politics as manipulation, humanism as a mask, freedom as decoration.
In his book Democracy for the Few, he wrote about a new form of fascism — quiet, scientifically managed, and smiling. About dehumanization. About sadism. About the real power no one sees.
The Geneva Convention of 1947 clearly states: The violation of human rights is not a private crime, but the foundation of future violence and war.;And if this is not stopped — it will all repeat itself. Only with different words, flags, and faces.

Who Will Continue? I write because I know. Because I was a victim. Because I survived. But that is not enough.
Who will be the next Parenti? Who will go beyond words — and speak the truth?
Silence is complicity. To remain human — is to speak.