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

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