I want to endorse everything Burt said about the recent virus on this
discussion site. It is tiresome to have people thinking out loud so
much--however earnest and intelligent they might be.
    Since Burt kindly mentioned my recent book, I think I am obliged to
thank him for the notice, and to add that I was not at the conference where
he read his fine & influential paper on Pound, Fascism, and Populism. I
should als osay that I am sorry if I misunderstood him on the relation
between populism and socialism. I took him to be associating American
populism with European Socialism from the following remark found on p. 145
of the Korn collection where his article appeared :  Fascism "blended an
authoritarianism usually associated with the 'right' and a 'populism'
usually characteristic of the 'left'." I don't know how else to take that
remark, but perhaps I put more weight on it than he intended it to bear. To
me the "left" means socialism. Perhaps my usage is idiosyncratic.
    Despite these quibbles, I think we all owe Burt gratitude for his
measured intervention. (Incidentally, I have read both Surette and Marsh, as
well as Zev Sternhell, whom I also strongly recommend to anyone interested
in the history of Fascism and Nazism--would his books were better organized.

Leon Surette
English Dept.
University of Western Ontario
London, Ont.
N6A 3K7