A few people have praised Casillo's _Genealogy of Demons_ for its
discussions of Pound's anti-Semitism. I agree -- it's a rigorous and
intelligent study of P's race prejudice. Where I think Casillo fumbles is
in his discussion of Pound's fascism. He seems to want to depict Pound as
a garden variety fascist (despite the fact that there wasn't even garden
variety fascism -- Mussolini in 1923 is not Mussolini in 1940). An
enormous problem I see is that Casillo never adequately discusses the role
of Confucius in P's politics; another is his willingness to see P's
philofascism as a result of anti-Semitism, although Mussolini didn't
institute the racial laws until -- when? 1938?
 
Bill Freind