The guy talks like a high school radical. Writes “Ghost of Tom Joad” thirty years after everyone, but the most hardened leftist, updated their view of communism — and the horror it brought — that Steinbeck celebrated in Grapes of Wrath. At least Steinbeck didn’t fully know what was coming in 1939 when he wrote the book. Springsteen has no such excuse, except rank ignorance.
Grapes of Wrath has also been seen as anti-communist.