Speaking of the following quotation, usefully supplied by Tim Romano:

>>
>>     "If you don't believe that Mussolini is driven by
>>a vast and deep "concern" or will for the welfare
>>of Italy, not Italy as a bureaucracy, or Italy as a
>>state machinery stuck up on top of the people, but
>>for Italy organic, composed of the last ploughman
>>and the last girl in the olive-yards, then you will
>>have a great deal of trouble about he un-Jeffersonian
>>details of his surfaces."
>>      JEFF and/ or MUSS, Ch. 6, "Intelligentsias" (publ. 1935)
>

Wei wrote:

>Mussolini, Pound, and the supporters of fascism really cared not at all for
>the worker. Seldes quotes a number of observers who share a >belief in the
>equation "fascism equals feudalism." ...
>Given the REALTITES of Confucio-Mencian feudalism, and of Italian fascism,
>how can it be seriously argued that Pound cared at all for a >social system
>which would benefit the "little guy"?
>
>----Wei

Assuming it is agreed that in Tim Romano's quotation Pound is at least
purporting to show concern for the worker, was he (a) lying, (b) joking, (c)
deceiving himself, (d) showing off, (e) writing without thinking or (f) some
combination of all or some of these?

And what about "The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant's bent
shoulders"?

Richard Edwards
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