And Markus, I trust you aren’t giving in to the fantasy that either Lenin twisted communism or that Stalin did; what both of them did, namely establish terror and murder as state policies, was inherent in their ideologies, not perversions of it.

There’s a new book about Seeger’s life out; I saw it at Border’s today. Forget the title; I wasn’t going to buy it. Anyway, the index contains no reference to
my favorite Seeger work, “Songs for John Doe.” It came out in mid-June 1941 and he and his group strived mightily to recall it. The book consisted of songs about how the war then raging was an imperialist war and nothing but…after June 22, of course, it suddenly became a people’s struggle or, in words Seeger hasn’t actually used but has certainly exemplified, Oceania is at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia and always has been.

I have several of his records, I enjoy most of the songs, but he has always been an active apologist for the most hideous oppression imaginable and his second thoughts, expressed to Radosh not that long ago, were hardly self-searching.

A character in a Eugene O’Neill play said it about the English, but it suits morally blind leftists like Pat even better: they can’t live without a master’s backside to kiss, the dirty slaves.

Seeger kissed the boot of one of the 20th century’s greatest monsters. But then the left has no problem with that, as long as the murderers are anti-American and spout a lot of horse manure about “The People.”

Typical glitterati Socialist. All puff, no stuff.

“A die-hard apologist for Soviet communism blows out the candles.”

Just leave out the last three words and you will have nailed it.