Leon Surette wrote > > No, I am not saying he chose evil because he preferred evil. >. . . the political posture Pound >adopted was one which he shared with the evil regimes of Hitler, Mussolini >and the Japanese oligarchy--though not with the evil regime of Stalin. In >that sense he endorsed evil--misidentifying it with virtue. I would add >that >the misidentification does him no credit. Few remained as deluded as he. On >the other hand, I would not identify the acts of the allies in bombing >Germany and Japan as virtuous--or even justified. But that is another >matter. > The point I wanted to make is that Pound's moral failure in the >thirties >and beyond was much greater than most of his contemporaries, that is >contemporary artists and intellectuals. Even his anti-Semitic Social Credit >friends showed more constraint and common sense. > >Leon Surette This makes great sense to me. I find this view coherent, comprehensive, and very much in harmony with my own opinion, regarding Pound's political choices and social commitments. Wei ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com