The author (Eustace Mullins) dedicates this article to Ezra Pound? See the following, by Burton Hatlen, from Ezra Pound and Fascism" in Korn, Marianne (ed.) Ezra Pound and History. © 1995 National Poetry Foundation (http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/pound/fascism.htm): > in Pound’s political thought as in the fascist movement as a whole, the > search for a society that would respect both the European cultural heritage > and the aspirations of workers and peasants for economic justice gradually > gave way to an obsession with the ENEMY: a group of "obstructers" who have, > Pound persuaded himself, deliberately and persistently thwarted the attempts > of decent people to create a just and orderly polis.
> Furthermore, Pound increasingly tended to identify the "obstructers," the > "hoggers of the harvest," as Jews, so that by 1940 the terms "usury" and > "kikery" had become, for him, synonymous. To some extent Pound’s movement > toward a doctrinaire anti-semitism may represent a desire to keep up with his > beloved Duce. During the 1930s Mussolini fell more and more under the sway of > Hitler, whom he had once regarded with contempt. As a consequence, official > propaganda in Italy as well as in Germany increasingly described the Jews as > the power behind both Bolshevism and what Hitler called "finanzcapital," and > a survey of Pound’s political writings in the last half of the 1930s suggests > that he dutifully followed this shift in the fascist party line. < Of course, that does not say anything at all about the quality of Pound's poetry. On Mullins himself, from http://www.bethuneinstitute.org/documents/eustacemullins.html (the Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies): > Mullins has a notorious history going back fifty years. In the early 1950s, > Mullins was a member of the New York based National Renaissance Party, itself > the successor of the Socialist Reich Party whose main functions involved > campaigns to release Nazi war criminals, and maintaining contacts with > neo-fascist parties in the USA, Canada, and elsewhere. At this time, Mullins > wrote an article for the National Renaissance Bulletin, entitled "Adolf > Hitler: An Appreciation." > Later in the 1950s, Mullins worked for Senator Joseph McCarthy in the > campaign to demonize communists and other progressives and destroy their > organizations. > In the 1980s and 90s, Mullins served as a contributing editor to the > Christian Vanguard, a publication edited by the former information officer of > the American Nazi Party, James K. Warner. The Vanguard is the periodical of > the Christian Defense League, a Louisiana-based organization which combines > elements of Nazi-fascism and the white racist Christian Identity religion. > The neo-Nazi Aryan Nations has published Mullins' books, and Mullins has > spoken at numerous Identity conferences, along with such notables as ex-KKK > leader, David Duke. In the late 1990s, Mullins began to speak at meetings of > the militia movement. < This is not to say that fascists are always wrong. After all, as my favorite cliche says "a stopped clock is right twice a day." But we should think about the important differences between leftist (socialist or left-liberal) viewpoints and values and those of fascists. Fascist perspectives and values bias their reports and theories. I, for one, don't see the Federal Reserve as a conspiracy (as that term is usually defined). It's just a matter one sector of the class of rich people unified in defending their power and privilege. Most of the operations of the "cartel" are well-known. For example, as we can see in any economics textbook, one of the jobs of the Fed is to make sure that the banks don't lend too much money, because that would undermine the scarcity value of money (and create the inflation that financiers hate). This is the same as classic cartel behavior (restricting the production of steel to keep its price up). Peter Hollings wrote: > There is a good bit of evidence that the Fed sacrifices the public interest > in service of its owners, the banking cartel. See: > http://www.hollings.org/Content/Mullins-SecretsOfTheFederalReserve.pdf . > > Peter Hollings -- Jim Devine / "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." - John Kenneth Galbraith _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
