> !
>
> bill,
>     not exactly...the terms are meaningfull enuf
> (didn't i just try to thumbnail "fascism")
> but the polemic that invariably grounds them
> - thats to say, the winner's narrative
> (capitalist good guys, fascist bad guys),
> that displaces thereby "the horror" of modern history
> onto the popular classes,
> is jes the usual speciousness of the cultural hegemon,
> bourgeois liberalism.
 
But that polemic *doesn't* invariably ground them. In fact, the majority of
the writers who have been cited here -- Gregor, Ledeen, Tim Redman,
Sternhell (about whom I'd like to second Leon Surette's recommendation) --
all present subtle and important discussions of a complicated phenomenon.
 
> so that i'd say sumpin like,
> feel free to absolve yersef of any compunctions
> in re ep's purported ideological/racial guilt
> ...therz no need to feel ashamed if you find
> yersef agree'n with a particular use of the word kike or nigger,
 
Oh, lordy, Bob -- this is ridiculous and it goes well beyond word choice.
Pound's anti-Semitism would be comical if it weren't so nasty: he's wrong on
every count. If you find yourself agreeing with his use of the word "kike,"
you've got bigger problems than liking a word which has fallen out of favor.
 
Bill Freind