[Fiji Hill]

He was never a Mao guy.

Maybe so, but his mentor was the old Stalinist Comrade Pete Seeger and his early recordings definitely leaned left.

[frank ballenger]

Agreed.
Pete Seeger was an anti-American all the way and a big Stalin era Soviet Union supporter.
Anecdote: On Union Maid song by Woody Guthrie:
Pete Seeger, writes: “I’m proud to say I was present when ‘Union Maid’ was written in June, 1940, in the plain little office of the Oklahoma City Communist Party.”