“just causes” = self-righteousness
(from wikipedia)
“If I had a hammer” ... The song was first performed publicly by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays on June 3, 1949, at St. Nicholas Arena in New York City at a testimonial dinner for the leaders of the Communist Party of the United States, who were then on trial in federal court, charged with violating the Smith Act by advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Self-righteousness is just a phony form of respectability.
Yes, real Stalinists that that shit Seager was slobbering over, Paul Robeson, the same. Bastards.