Bob:

Reference your musing on economic things you might try:

Surette, Leon,  "Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to
Anti-Semitism", Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1999.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM


>      I have never thot of this period in terms of pop notions of idealism
vs
> materialism; nor, of the Cantos as contra-Kapital.  But would be
interested
> to hear the case made.  Certainly Pound was contemporary with the most
> dramatic and apocalytpically violent period of western history since the
> dark ages.  Certainly History is his cardinal theme; and his persona was
> afflicted  with manic conviction of his own insight (a la OT prophet or
> Puritan divine) into its hierophantic significance.