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Stuck with Pound

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Re: Stuck with Pound

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pjc50 wrote: post #11

sigh I feel this comments section is just going to reiterate the culture war rather than address the article, the book it's reviewing, the Chinese poems "translated", other works of Pound, or Pound's actual relationship to Fascism. A refresher on the latter: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/coming-to-terms-wi... Notable in there is the ancestor of Qanon, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a notorious rac…

His later writing wasn't far removed from Qanon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208047

Re: Stuck with Pound

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082349872349872 wrote: post #30
082349872349872 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it would be a loss, because up until today I had thought broad-mindedness was sufficient protection against fascism. In Pound we have someone who railed against provincialism and secondary sources in early work, yet wound up broadcasting pro-fascist propaganda for Mussolini. ABC of Reading (ch 3. p 42): > "One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, thos…

Now halfway through ...Kulchur and not sure I'll do more than skim the rest. While ABC had structure, Kulchur is reminiscent of a series of blog posts put into print. The proximal cause of his support for Fascism is obvious, on p.249: > "Mussolini has told his people that poetry is a necessity to the state , and Carlo Delcroix is convinced that poets ought to "occupy themselves with these matters", namely credit, the…

Oops, he was the opposite of a goldbug. He wanted off the gold standard, presumably with silver or BTC or some alternative...
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