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In a message dated 08/02/2000 2:13:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Also I think it should go without saying that a fascist government is more
 “repressive” and more “authoritarian” than the form of government which
 currently exists in the US, Western Europe, and Scandinavia. >>


as I pointed out to you once before, take a little sojourn down to Guatemala
and see what they think about the above.  and even though you have done your
damnedest to cast Pound Hitler, he wasn't -- and he wasn't against the little
folk as you insist he was, and he wasn't against decency.  he was a miserable
bastard in many respects, but no good is served by exaggerating his faults,
or by trying to make him culpable for the crimes of the Nazis because he said
he admired Hitler, or Mussolini -- all Pound did was run his mouth.  he
didn't do anything nearly as bad as a typical foreign service officer in,
say, Guatemala, or any CIA case officer in the Middle East.  if you want to
continue insisting that Pound was inherently evil -- and don't say that you
don't want to because the sum total of what you've written says exactly that
-- then of course no one can stop you.  but in so doing you only weaken any
legitimate critical insights -- and I'm not going to respond to a lot of
long-winded hairsplitting over when or how an insight is critical, I passed
that threshold decades ago, and I'm certainly not alone in this achievement.
as a matter of fact it's been my intent not to engage you in any critical
discourse because it seems to me -- and overwhelmingly at that -- that you're
not sincere, a point I made to you in a private communication that you
subsequently made public.  when I objected to this, you apologized, and
claimed it was perhaps a cultural mistake, but then you did the same thing
with a private communication from Carlo Parcelli, an action that only
confirmed for me that my suspicion regarding your sincerity is right on
target.

jb....

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