I'm glad someone finally got the point in that E.P.'s semitism was economic based!
 
Evidence for this exists in many places.  In 'Guide to Kulchar' we find:
"The red herring is scoundral's device and usurer's stand by...Race predjudice is red herring.  The tool of the man defeated intellectually, and of the cheap politician...It is nonsense for the Anglo-Saxon to revile the Jew for beating him at his own game."   In the essay "What is Money For" E.P. soap boxes for a while on usury and then claims that 'Jewspapers' are trying to obscure the issue, claiming that "I wish to distinguish between predjudice against the Jew as such and the suggestion that the Jew should face his own problem.  DOES he in his individual case wish to observe the law of Moses?  Does he propose to continue to rob other men by usuary mechanism while wishing to be considered a 'neighbor'"?
 
Despicable as anti-Semitism is, Pound was no more misguided than any other intellectual of the period.  It WAS economic in origin.  In "Murder by Capital" we read: "Hatred can be bred in the mind, it need not of necessity rise from the 'heart'.  Head born hatred is possibly the most virulent.  Leaving aside my present belief that economic order is possible and that the way to a commonly decent economic order is known.  What has capital done that I should hate Andy Mellon as a symbol or as a reality"?
 
Nisi bona intentio, mens moritur.
(Without good intention, the mind dies)
 
Richard of St. Victor
 
 
 
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