Richard:
The "typical strategy" you describe seems to be still the approach of people
deploring "Jewish influence," as in Hollywood and pop culture generally. The
Net is waxing hot these days on all that.

And I have long given over the fond illusion that anything good can come
from governments, particularly large central governments. Pound was caught
up in that illusion to a faretheewell, as H.L. Mencken was not, as Mark
Twain was not, and as Whitman was (I guess) to some extent although not
altogether; but we live post-Rothbard and concurrently with Hoppe, and we
now know that all states must engross and enlarge and steal and rampage and
kill until they achieve what it is in their nature to seek: the death of the
society that gave them birth and permitted them to grow.

I love Pound's poetry and especially his indomitable insistence that beauty
and justice, damn it, SHOULD exist; but I now look elsewhere for anything
approaching a solution to the social problem. Since it appears none exists,
then it is back to tending one's own garden and, well, reading Pound, as
once upon a time it was said, just before the end, that Byzantium still read
Homer. Tom White

> From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:35:46 -0700
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pound & Politics
>
> Tom:
>
> An excellent resource for experiencing the anti-Semitism of the early 20th
> century is "The International Jew" published by the Dearborn Press.  Henry
> Ford purchased the Dearborn Press as a newspaper organ for his views on what
> was then called "The Jewish Question".  A typical strategy of those articles
> was to separate the rich banker apostate type Jews from the Jewish race and
> from observing Jews .
>
> Mussolini was a Socialist originally and Pound was an avid supporter of
> Guild Socialism.  Pound's objection to Marx was that Marx wanted to control
> the economy and society indirectly through control of capital whereas Pound
> and the Social Credit types wanted to control the economy and society
> directly through control of the money.
>
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM