Bernstein: "When Pound the great artist is excused for his politics, fascism has won. When Pound's politics are used to categorically discredit the compositional methods of his poetry, fascism has won. When Pound's poetry is exalted and his politics dismissed as largely irrelevant to his achievement, fascism has won. When Pound's politics are condemned, his poetry acknowledged or ignored in passing, but sanitized forms of his ideas prevail--the virtue of authority, property, and the homestead ... the sanctity of the classics, the condemnation of the nonstandard ... and the divine right of the West (or East) to harness and bleed the rest of the world--fascism has won."