p's argument for the monetarist coz of the us war of independence is no figment...as anyone who's tried to make a living on the short end of colonialism knows only too well...also the "terrorist genius" of the rev, sam adams, had intimate experience, (his father attempted a land bank, no?) of the insuperable oppressiveness of the monetary monopoly of england ...and it's sure remarkable the silence accorded this theme by the historians (even beard) up to very recent... similarly analysis of this theme must figure prominenty as causative of the fascist rev's...indeed vastly moreso than the usual comic opera propaganda themes of megalomania, police terror, chauvinism.... in this light p's fascism were consistent with the adams', greenbacks, w j bryan, ... geo wallace, patrick buchanan... ...eminently merkan, populist, democratic. neither does it seem possible to square p with ayn rand, the divine right of the aristocracy of industrial maggots ...the spurious fascism which obtained in germany, japan, merka, etc. anyway, so pound's political-econ doesn't seem bughouse to me, ...and his ideology, an essential key to the poetry ...more even than eliot and seems like, for us merkans, approaching p involves overcoming two immense monuments of our petty boojwa lib intellectual culture: first, their parson weems rendition of wwii, and than, of course, pc doesn't pound have to be read qua yankee populist? huck or gabby, not pre-raphaelite esthete cum bertran de born? bob