p's argument for the monetarist coz of the us war of independence
is  no figment...as anyone who's tried to make a living on the
short end of colonialism knows only too well...also the "terrorist
genius"  of the rev, sam adams, had intimate experience,
(his father attempted a land bank, no?) of the insuperable oppressiveness of
the monetary monopoly of england
...and it's sure remarkable the silence accorded this theme by the
historians (even beard) up to very recent...
 
similarly analysis of this theme must figure prominenty as causative
of the fascist rev's...indeed vastly moreso than the usual comic opera
propaganda themes of megalomania,  police terror,  chauvinism....
 
in this light p's fascism were consistent with the adams',
greenbacks, w j bryan, ... geo wallace, patrick buchanan...
...eminently merkan, populist, democratic.
 
neither does it seem possible to square p with ayn rand,
the divine right of the aristocracy of industrial maggots
...the spurious fascism which obtained in germany,
japan, merka, etc.
 
anyway, so pound's political-econ doesn't seem bughouse to me,
...and his ideology,  an essential key to the poetry
...more even than eliot
 
and seems like, for us merkans, approaching p involves
overcoming two immense monuments of our petty boojwa lib
intellectual culture: first, their parson weems rendition of wwii,
and than, of course,  pc
 
doesn't pound have to be read qua yankee populist?
huck  or gabby,
not pre-raphaelite esthete cum bertran de born?
 
bob