I'm sure you would not judge the actuality of Soviet communism
by the magnificent ideality of the Soviet Constitution.
==Dan
At 05:49 PM 8/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>As a utopian vision, Fascism has some merit. Mussollini's manifesto, for
example, promotes some of the same kind of ideas as does Confucius--a need
for order, but within order, flexibility. The need to subordinate the
individual to the whole. Some may argue against the merit of this--and I am
not sure that I like it myself--but it is the same impulse that built us
great cathedrals in the middle ages, for example. Like fashion, certain
terms, like certain writers, become throw aways--especially in the academy.
That is, for years, it was fashionable to condemn Nietzsche, because of
the alleged connection between his philosophy and the Nazis. It in fact was
so easy to condemn him that no one had to read him. Yet there is no Nazi in
Nietzsche. If anything, he is sort of Buddhist. For years (even now) it has
been easy to throw away Pound, rather than to read him. How many of you
have encountered resistance somewhere along the line when you suggested
that you liked Pound? How many people have had difficulty getting
professors to teach him? What is his place in the Modernist anthologies?
Likewise, there are some darn compelling essays on fascism as a social
program.
> And they finally got those swamps drained in Italy, right?
>
>>>> Joe Brennan <[log in to unmask]> 08/26 5:26 PM >>>
>since I'm obviously (I thought) punning, it has several meanings -- assent,
>of course, and also a comment on pound's "political leanings."
>
>jb....
>
>In a message dated 8/26/99 3:41:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
><<
> i trust this acknowledges your assent, and not a
> declaration of political leanings...
>
> Stoneking
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Brennan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 3:05 PM
> Subject: Re: EP and academics
>
>
> > or even right on....
> >
> > In a message dated 8/26/99 2:53:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > << right.
> > >>
>
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