One of the points that Pound makes is that the agenda set forth in the
Protocols, regardless of the document's sources, was becoming a reality.
Pound writes:
"Now, say I am incoherent, say I have not given you a
formal discourse. Let us be CLEAR. YOU COMPARE Laski's total program with
the total program of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (without going
into the sources of that document). COMPARE the two programs, and then come
back and tell papa."
Pound finds evidence of the program in the following trends and cataclysms:
--the banishment of the classics from the curriculum and the
ascendancy of the Protestant Old Testament such that "doctrines of
humiliation, doctrines of shame" replace "intense luminous
thought" [recall 'in coitu illuminatio' -- TR];
--the destruction of historical perspective and the
propagandist's focus on 'the world of tomorrow';
--degradation and dehumanization of vocabulary and terminology,
whereby vague generality (e.g. labor) is substituted for clear-edged words
(e.g. men and women willing and able to work), ultimately enabling
economists and politicians to assert the thing that is not; the example he
gives is of Keynes' "saying that the then high cost of living was due to
lack of labor, when there were millions of men out of work."
--the usurious cost of capital standing the way of natural
abundance, workers and the middle class enslaved by interest payments.
--wholesale destruction of peoples by the sending of the
able-bodied off to war where they die by the millions;
The socialist agenda espoused by men such as Harold Laski at the London
School of Economics is, in Pound's reckoning, the manifestation of a plan
to destroy western civilization and to enslave its workers. When we focus
on the antisemitism in Pound's writings, we ought to bear in mind that the
subject involves much more than "suburban prejudice" or mental illness.
Although prejudice and paranoia both may be significant factors in his
life, to attribute Pound's perception of the socialist agenda to mania
alone does not illuminate the intellectual history of the period.
Anybody know where I can get an inexpensive copy of EIMI by e.e. cummings ?
Tim Romano
At 08:26 AM 11/22/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Pounders,
>
>a propos the "Protocols" here is just a post scriptum for all German
>speaking Poundians: Hadassa Ben-Itto's >"Die Protokolle der Weisen
>von Zion" - Anatomie einer Faelschung< (Aufbau Verlag) was published in
>1998. The itle of the original mss is "The Lie That Wouldn't Die". I haven't
>yet searched the web for an English language ed. of Ven-Itto's book. So I
>don't know yet if the mss title is also the title of a book.
>Cheers,
>
>alex
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