Seeger was the personification of the Stalinist Left. History tells his tale. Before the U. S. fought in WWII, most of the country favored isolationism. Many in the extreme factions on the right and left were taking their political instructions from Berlin and Moscow at that time. After the Molotov–Ribbentrop Non-aggression Pact in 1939 between German National Socialists and Soviet Union Communists, the leaders of the extremes in America doggedly conformed to the lead set by the Fascist-Socialist-Communist Party Line. The Communist Party USA did a complete about face, on Stalin's orders, after Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Pete Seeger obediently followed Stalin's Communist Party Line.
He till held on to his Communist ideals, even after he made limited denoucements. Seeger supposed and, for the press, showed he was in solidarity with "Ocupy Wall Street." Communism is much like a virus, it never really dies, once the body gets infected. m/r
Totalitarian Troubadour | National Review Online
JANUARY 29, 2014 By John Fund
We shouldn’t forget that Pete Seeger was Communism’s pied piper.
For some liberals, there really are no adversaries to their left. President Obama’s statement Tuesday on the death of folk singer Pete Seeger at age 94 was remarkable. Seeger was a talented singer, but he was also an unrepentant Stalinist until 1995, when he finally apologized for “following the [Communist] party line so slavishly.” You’d think Obama might have at least acknowledged (as even Seeger did) the error of his ways. Instead, Obama celebrated him only as a hero who tried to “move this country closer to the America he knew we could be.”
“Over the years, Pete used his voice — and his hammer — to strike blows for worker’s rights and civil rights; world peace and environmental conservation,” said Obama. “We will always be grateful to Pete Seeger.” Not even a hint that the “world peace” Seeger was seeking was one that would have been dominated by the Soviet Union.
I found Seeger a highly talented musician who raised American folk music to a new standard. But, as with other artists — the Nazi-era filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and the fascist poet Ezra Pound — an asterisk must be placed beside their names for their service in behalf of an evil cause.
Time magazine’s
obituary of Seeger was entitled: “Why Pete Seeger Mattered: The Pied Piper of the People’s Music.”
Recall that the original Pied Piper lured away the children of an entire town. They disappeared into a cave and were never seen again. When Seeger sang “If I Had a Hammer,” what he really meant was “If I Had a Hammer and Sickle.”
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