![]() This point is not to apologize for the moral and social catastrophe that was state socialism in the 20th century, but rather to draw a distinction between the role of communists when in power and when in opposition. It’s not that Seeger did a lot of good despite his longtime ties to the Communist Party he did a lot of good because he was a communist. But most of them struck the balanced tone of The Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews, who tweeted, “I love and will miss Pete Seeger but let’s not gloss over that fact that he was an actual Stalinist.” ![]() Some comments were laudatory, praising every aspect of his advocacy. All the better - Seeger, the epitome of tireless commitment to the cause, would have liked it that way. ![]() When the legendary folk singer Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94, remembrances of him, unsurprisingly, focused less on his music than on his social activism. ![]()
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