Bob : I think I got the cart before the horse, and also got more of my own present thinking in the passage you quote below than of Pound's circa 1930s and 40s. I perhaps should have said that, IMO, the money-worshiping Jews a la Rothschild, Schiff, Warburg, etc. that Pound focused on had a mirror image in the "left, socialist, atheist ethos of non-observant or apostate Jews," who to a terrible degree WERE the 1917 Bolshevik Rev., certainly the most murderous features of it. Other Jews of the same ethos launched the Zionist state of Israel. Can't say I know that Pound ever much commented on the leftie side of the thing. I think his important comments on international politics antedated the revelations of the real iniquity of the Red regime via Solzhenitsyn and others. (I am not au courant as to the term neo-Lib or exactly what it involves.) Certainly I am much more explicitly a Christian (Catholic) theist than Pound ever was, but many things he said about Europe in the pre-modern period were comforting to "our crowd." I see the current contest as between followers of Religion No. 1, the "original religion of humanity" in which God is sacrificed for man, and followers of Religion #2 wherein men are sacrificed to the false gods they erect themselves. My reference is to Merejkowski's Atlantis: Secret of the West. And I see Pound, for all his angry lashings-out, as essentially on our Religion No. 1 team, and a powerful force on it. But this is perhaps to go a bit astray. (I am presuming here to ecrire qu'on pense, seule plaisir d'ecrivain, the opinion of de Gourmont's that Pound so loved to quote. I hope my French is not too far off.) Tom White From: bob scheetz <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > Subject: Re: Pound & Politics > Tom White writes: The curious thing is how it doth appear the world is now at last catching up with Pound. What he was objecting to was the left, socialist, atheist ethos of non-observant or apostate Jews (which was oddly the mirror image of the money worshiping Jews, à la Rothschild), what one writer, talking of the Russian Rev. of 1917, has lately called "Lenin's willing executioners," mimicking the accusation by a Jewish writer that Germans and especially German Catholics were Hitler's. > > Tom, > I also think yours a excellent thumbnail, ...only a little startled > at the above,... had never thot of EP as a neo-lib? ...you mean to tar > every lefty with the yeltsin kleptocracy? ...the gulags? ...do you really > think neo-lib the EP hermeneutic for us today? > > thanks, > bob