Posted on 01/28/2014 1:01:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 01/28/2014 5:49:40 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honors.
Official Washington sang along - the audience must sing, was the rule at a Seeger concert - when it lionized him at the Kennedy Center in 1994. President Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them."
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Communist revolutions are always brought about by elitists who don’t have to live in the systems they create. They of course know what’s best for everyone else, and doubtless deserve the rewards that come with being in the ruling class, having struggled so hard to make the world a better place (better for everyone who matters, that is).
Such a great loss...... NOT!
On that day, the phony folk music of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan (version 1.0) and the saccharine schlock of Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Kingston Trio, and all the others died.
On that day, rock’n’roll, the REAL folk music of the 50s and 60s, the music of real people, began to be heard and respected for what it really was.
I feel no sadness for Seeger who died at the ripe old age of 94, my sadness is that someone like Bloomfield had to die so young.
“.....In 2007, in response to criticism from a former banjo student—historian Ron Radosh, a former Trotskyite who now writes for the conservative National Review—Seeger wrote a song condemning Stalin, “Big Joe Blues”:
“I’m singing about old Joe, cruel Joe. / He ruled with an iron hand. /He put an end to the dreams / Of so many in every land. / He had a chance to make / A brand new start for the human race. / Instead he set it back / Right in the same nasty place. / I got the Big Joe Blues. / Keep your mouth shut or you will die fast. / I got the Big Joe Blues. / Do this job, no questions asked. / I got the Big Joe Blues.”
The song was accompanied by a letter to Radosh, in which Seeger stated, “I think you’re right, I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in U.S.S.R [in 1965].”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
He was a commie. And now he is blowin’ in the wind.I guess thats his answer, as a marxist materialist, he finally found out it doesn’t matter because you can’t take it with you.
No, Pete didn’t like Joe. But there is one thing that eludes these “intellectuals” who think they can make communism work if only the “right people” are in charge: governments are constantly changing hands. Even if you get a string of really good people who will rule benignly, eventually a really bad one will come along and forever lock the cycle of government into a tyranny.
In short, there is one major flaw that dooms socialism and communism to inevitable failure: too much power in the hands of government. In a perfect socialist society, all property is collectively owned. But there is one problem: who enforces this collectivism? It can’t be voluntary, or you will just have what we have today: free market. Socialists themselves refuse to admit this one flaw, and by overlooking a problem it doesn’t go away; it gets bigger. When government collectively owns all the resources which the people depend upon for basic survival, it has total power over life and death. It owns the people like prisoners, and there is a psychology that always accompanies that. Stockholm syndrome. It applies to the captors just as much as the captives, and it doesn’t turn out well for the captive.
Exactly.
RIP Pete Seeger, a silly commie symp, but a great singer.
Thanks!
one less filthy commie..
But a lot of the songs they sang weren't real folk songs. The correct name would probably be more like neo-folk songs. If I wrote a song today protesting the Obama admin, it wouldn't be a folk song just because I played it on my acoustic guitar. It would just be a song.
Most good folk songs have stood the test of time. While many of the very old folk songs certainly were political in origin, most weren't. They were the popular tunes of their time. Like today, most were love songs. Many were about simply having a good time. Some told the news of the day. And there were a number that were political and unpopular with the powerful. But the communist folk music movement tried to inject their leftism into every song they sang.
And a lot of the greatest folk music is the non-verbal, dance music. Think Irish and Scottish jigs, reel, hornpipes and the like. It took me until I was almost thirty (I'm sixtyfour) to discover this whole other world of folk music that wasn't about hating rich, capitalist warmongers and making a new (commie) world for the masses.
This Land Is My Land
by Barack Hussein Obama
Words and Music by William Ayers
This land is my land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the red wood forests to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is closed because of me.
I closed memorials to World War veterans
And put up barricades across our parklands
I told my minions to make you suffer
This land is closed because of me.
As I was shutting the Mount Rushmore highways
I saw above me restricted airspace
I saw below me, off-limits canyons
This land is closed because of me.
I rode my tour bus and I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”
But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
That side is closed to you by me.
When the sun came shining, then I went golfing,
I took my putter and the ball went rolling,
It was a swell day at Andrews Air Force,
That base was kept open for me.
I’ve lied and cheated, and followed commies
I’ve demonized those evil ‘Pubbies
My neighbors dabble in domestic terror
This land’s transformed because of me.
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that fascist highway;
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land was made to rule by me.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3079361/posts?page=4
He overdosed. He wasn't particularly young when he died. And his career was already over.
No comment.
What distinguishes real folk music from fake? Was Guthrie’s 1930s work real folk music? Or maybe the Carter Family?
The Carter Family is real folk music. A.P. traveled about (sometimes with a black guitar player) collecting songs from the hills and hollers.
Woody wrote songs about his own life. In my book, that qualifies as real.
Murder ballads.
37 isn’t young? Wait till you’re 94 and then tell me 37 isn’t young.
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