Richard:

I don't know why you should feel either sucked or suckered into an email
argument, which isn't how I see our exchange.

I, too, read Pound and about Pound.

And I, too, think about his writing a great deal, trying to turn its many
facets to be lit by many lights.

And if you can help me better understand his work: its genesis, its actuality,
its consequences, then I am grateful to you. And even if you can't help me, but
manage to read with an open mind my own paltry comments, then I am grateful to
you for that.

I know its almost an anathema to mention Gramsci on this list, but I've often
wondered at the differences between Pound and Gramsci, both living in the same
state at the same time, both bending their analysis and written records to
account for and better understand the phenomenon of Mussolini/Fascism. Their
completely different starting points, methodologies, conclusions.

The different influences both men have had, and still have.

And their separate followings, largely committed to ignoring each other.

Michael





Richard Seddon wrote:

> Michael
>
> I regret being sucked into an email arguement.  I am not good at them.  That
> said;
>
> I am not advocating anything.  I am not an economist and I am not a student
> of Marx.  I do read Pound and about Pound a lot.
>
> Pound advocated Social Credit.  Pound also advocated certain Fascist
> economic theories.  Pound found Marx's reasoning simplistic and largely
> uninformed.
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM