[allendale]

Pete Seeger in the final analysis was an enemy of the people.

[gattaca]

Interesting.

[Ancesthntr]

The only good Communist is a dead Communist - and now Seeger is good.

That he had talent is quite beside the point - he made the wrong decision at every point in his life on the big issues, having joint the CPUSA in 1941, at the height of Stalin’s powers (and purges). Until Hitler invaded the USSR, he was against U.S. involvement in the war - thus aiding Hitler indirectly. He was a huge force for the Left and, unlike Joan Bayez, NEVER APOLOGIZED for being on the dark side and the consequences of having taken part in its activities.

I’m glad the SOB is dead - he can’t pollute any more minds now, and he’ll be answering for his actions.

[dfwgator]

It marked the beginning of the introduction of political themes and overt social causes into American pop music — a process that would be continued by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and countless others to the point that now we take it for granted.

It also meant then to score with chicks you had to mention "Modern Art, Civil Rights or Folk Music."

[yldstrk]

commie unionist

[b4its2late]

I never heard of him till yesterday.

[oldbrowser]

I wonder how it is that these people who are clearly capitalists in their endeavors choose to champion anti-capitalism?

[nhwingut]

Sadly, this is true. If Pete Seeger died in say 1975 every obituary would mention word the “communist” in the first sentence. Today, it’s barely noted. He was a “folk” singer whose politics are essentially in line with American icons like Springsteen and Dylan.

[ThomasMore]

Pete Seeger was a commie bastard. He’s a dead one now. Let’s see if the commie POTUS we have lowers the flag in his honor or makes some sort of honor speech for the enemy of the state.

[grania]

Pete Seeger preserved and made popular a lot of traditional US folk music. He championed using music as a means to express oneself. That he was a communist does not stop "This Land is Your Land" and many of his other songs from being excellent expressions of joy and patriotism.

I don't agree with his politics. That does not prevent me from appreciating his contribution to a great era in music, which is now over.

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[nhwingut]

It also shows you how far to the left the Democrat party has moved. For all the talk about Republicans moving to the right think about a Democrat party that in 2014 is basically aligned with the politics of Americas most famous communist. I mean Seeger is one of them.

[Theodore R.]

Until he died, the sheeple had forgotten about Seeger. Now they will name this and that after him, but many still are so uninformed that they won’t know who Seeger was.

[Da Coyote]

He, like the Obamadorkthing, is slime.

The only diff is that Seeger could sing.

[Jeff Chandler]

The music (or the movies) had to work as art and avoid heavy-handedness.

This is the problem with the few cultural offerings from the right.

Conservatives need to create music and movies that can stand alone, that are interesting, even compelling without preaching. The message has to be subtle. We are competing for cultural shelf space, and losing badly.

[Scoutmaster]

The best thing Pete Seeger ever did for me was to make my 1963 Vega long-neck banjo valuable. Ah, capitalism.

[editor-surveyor]

The creep that taught little kids about “the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees.”

What a guy!