Pound was interested, I believe, in
> an ideological purge, in removing Jews from positions of power.

voila', tim, cultural rev... yer poli-sci analytic is almost home.
in fact, fascist anti-semitism was rational.  they constituted (still do) an
elite managerial caste on behalf of the bourgeois/whig (in germany,
whilhelminian and weimar) ownership class, with critical strategic command
of cultural, financial, and productive capital; and were, therefore, very
much an objective enemy of the revolution.
fascist anti-semitism finds its parallel in bourgeois (masonic)
anti-clericalism at the time of the french rev sea change.

    of course, we all know this matter is taboo
(which speaks volumes in itself, no?)...still, nice to see
someone sticking at intellectual integrity and throwing their
boojwa lib humbug and stalinist bullying back in their face.

yerz, bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Broadcasts, Pogroms, Anti-Communism


> Dan,
> Pound uses anti-Jewish epithets. He blames war on the putative
machinations
> of Jewish international banking families.  He would deny Jews the
> opportunity to work in civil service.  Pound was interested, I believe, in
> an ideological purge, in removing Jews from positions of power. However, I
> do not find evidence in his published poetry or polemics of his ever
having
> advocated genocide, overtly or covertly, actively or passively.  From the
> perspective hindsight gives us, we recognize Pound's voice as one voice
> among many voices which, when regarded as one voice, seem to us to be
> assenting to, if not openly advocating, the wholesale slaughter of a
people.
> But Pound did not seem himself as belonging to a large mob. The impression
> one gets from the broadcasts is that, if anything, Pound felt isolated,
that
> he was reaching very few people indeed. Morever, where he seems to be
aware
> that his anti-Jewish rhetoric could bring physical harm and destruction of
> property upon those whom he would have regarded as "innocent Jews", as
> victims of the "Jew bankers", he goes out of his way to address his
imagined
> audience, advising them _not_ to start a pogrom.  I  know of  no evidence
> which shows that he was aware that his rhetoric, which relies upon
> anti-Jewish feeling as an engine of social change, might lead to something
> worse than 'street violence'.
>
> Where would you put Pound? In Heaven, Purgatory, or Hell?  If in Purgatory
> or Hell, please describe the torments which you would consider apposite.
>
> Tim Romano