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Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound Reads Canto I

time: 6:09 / 588 words

Published: February 28, 2013 | Posted in video of the day | Tagged Cantos, Ezra Pound, Homer, poems, The Odyssey, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

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Religio or, The Child’s Guide to Knowledge

Ezra Pound

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, “A Reading from Homer,” 1885, detail

487 words

What is a god?
A god is an eternal state of mind.
What is a faun?
A faun is an elemental creature.
What is a nymph?
A nymph is an elemental creature.
When is a god manifest?
When the states of mind take form.
When does a man become a god?
When he enters one of these states of mind.
What is the nature of the forms whereby a god is manifest?
Read more …

Published: January 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ezra Pound, neo-paganism. philosophy, North American New Right, paganism, poems, religion, reprints | Comments closed

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ABC of Economics, Part 5 & Conclusion

Ezra Pound

2,810 words

Part 5 of 5

Chapter I

Minor Addenda and Varia

I have never met a gambler with an ounce of intelligence, but the prejudice against lotteries is in the category of superstitions, totemism and taboo. Lotteries can harm only the imbeciles who buy tickets, but these imbeciles appear to be wholly in their own right. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, Benito Mussolini, book excerpts, C. H. Douglas, David Hume, deflation, dictatorship, economic speculation, economics, Ezra Pound, inflation, lotteries, money, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, taxation, the gold standard, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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ABC of Economics, Part 4

Ezra Pound

4,781 words

Part 4 of 5

Chapter I

Politics, A Necessary Digression

Science or no science an economic system or lack-of-system is bound to be affected by the political system in which or beside which it exists, and more especially by the preconceptions or prejudices or predispositions and attitudes implied in the political system. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aristocracy, banking, book excerpts, deflation, economics, Ezra Pound, inflation, leisure, money, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, the gold standard, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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ABC of Economics (1933), Part 3

Ezra Pound

2,115 words

Part 3 of 5

Chapter I

Costing

Published: December 10, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, book excerpts, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics, Thomas Jefferson | Comments closed

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ABC of Economics (1933), Part 2

Ezra Pound

1,678 words

Part 2 of 5

Chapter I

On Volition

Published: December 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, book excerpts, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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ABC of Economics (1933), Part 1

Ezra Pound

2,306 words

Part 1 of 5

The aim of this brochure is to express the fundamentals of economics so simply and clearly that even people of different economic schools and factions will be able to understand each other when they discuss them.

After about forty pages I shall not ‘descend’, but I shall certainly go into, ‘go down into’ repetitions and restatements in the hope of reaching this clarity and simplicity. Read more …

Published: December 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, book excerpts, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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America, Roosevelt, & the Causes of the Present War

Ezra Pound

5,925 words

1944

The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:

(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, banking, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics, usury, World War II | Comments closed

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Social Credit: An Impact

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound in the 1920s

6,248 words

“The earth belongs to the living.”
– Thomas Jefferson

Definitions

Increment of association: Advantage men get from working together instead of each on his own, e.g., crew that can work a ship whereas the men separately couldn’t sail ships each on his own.

Cultural heritage: Increment of association with all past inventiveness, Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, usury | Comments closed

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An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States

Ezra Pound

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Ezra Pound

7,875 words

This is not a SHORT History of the Economy of the United States. For forty years I have schooled myself, not to write the Economic History of the U.S. or any other country, but to write an epic poem which begins “In the Dark Forest,” Read more …

Published: March 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged American history, articles, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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What is Money For?

Ezra Pound

4,741 words

We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception.

I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, inflation, money, National Socialism, reprints, Silvio Gessel, Social Credit, Third Way economics, Thomas Jefferson, usury | Comments closed

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Materialism

Ezra Pound

1,064 words

Ezra Pound’s Radio Broadcast #102, June 26, 1943

An idea is colored by what it is dipped in. Take for example the more or less Teutonic idea of materialism. Marx and Engels get to foolin’ ’round with Hegel’s philosophy, or something, and evolve or devolve what is called Marxian materialism, and it gets toted off into Russia. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Ezra Pound, George Santayana, Karl Marx, Marxism, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, William James | Comments closed

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Two Cantos, with Recordings of Pound’s Recitations

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound by Arno Breker

928 words

Canto I (“And then went down”)

For Ezra Pound’s recitation (5:32), click here: MP3

Published: October 30, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged banking, economics, Ezra Pound, Homer, money, North American New Right, poems, poetry, reprints, usury | Comments closed

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“England,” Ezra’s Pound’s Radio Broadcast of March 15, 1942

Ezra Pound

1,979 words

Editor’s Note:

The following is the text of Ezra Pound’s Radio Rome broadcast of March 15, 1942. Pound began writing radio broadcasts in the fall of 1940. His first scripts were read by professional announcers. In January of 1941, he began to record his own scripts. Generally, he did two broadcasts per week, and he would pre-record them in batches of 10 to 20. The broadcasts ended in July, 1943 with the fall of the Mussolini government.

Published: October 30, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, banking, economics, England, Ezra Pound, fascism, Italy, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, the Jewish question, usury, World War II | Comments closed

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