Wow! The author thinks that Brecht wrote the funniest song of the 20th Century. Guess Comden & Greene and all the other American musical comedy geniuses just can’t compete with a good German humorist...
Bertoldt Brecht, who once said of the victims of the 1937 Moscow purges, “The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot!!”
Anyone who says he can forgive someone their Stalinism has already lost me.
Eh, I read this piece and while he’s honest in his title and that part is all kind of amusing in a snarky way (and I really liked Seeger as a singer, even though i know he was an awful commie) but some of his other comments about music are pretty questionable.