Pete Seeger, entertaining First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and others at a labor canteen in 1944. (Library of Congress)
Posted on 01/28/2014 1:01:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 01/28/2014 5:49:40 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honors.
Official Washington sang along - the audience must sing, was the rule at a Seeger concert - when it lionized him at the Kennedy Center in 1994. President Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them."
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
“....In the ‘80s and ‘90s Mr. Seeger toured regularly with Arlo Guthrie, Woody’s son, and continued to lead singalongs and perform benefit concerts. Recognition and awards arrived. He was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972, and in 1993 he was given a lifetime achievement Grammy Award. In 1994, President Bill Clinton handed him the National Medal of Arts, America’s highest arts honor, given by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1999, he traveled to Cuba to receive the Order of Félix Varela, Cuba’s highest cultural award, for his “humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against racism.”......
Godspeed you old commie
Consistent....fool
Mike Bloomfield shoulda killed you in 65(?) With his Telecaster
Clubbed you like a baby seal
Say hi to fellow commie woody...tell woody Arlo ain’t like him
Just to piss him off..
It’s always about control through deception.
“...................It would be difficult to recall, for example, the number of times I [David Horowitz] have been introduced on conservative platforms as “a former civil rights worker and peace activist in the 1960s.” I have been described this way despite having written a lengthy autobiography that exposes these self-glorifying images of the left as so much political deceit. Like many New Left leaders whom the young Mrs. Clinton once followed (and who are her comrades today), I saw myself in the 1960s as a Marxist and a revolutionary. What was idealistic about exploiting an issue like civil rights, for example, to achieve the destruction of the social order that made civil rights possible?
New Left progressives like Hillary Clinton and Acting Deputy Attorney General Bill Lann Lee were involved in supporting, or promoting, or protecting or making excuses for violent anti-American radicals abroad like the Vietcong and criminal radicals at home like the Black Panthers. We did this then — just as progressives still do now — in the name of “social justice” and a dialectical world-view that made this deception seem ethical and the fantasy seem possible.
As Jamie Glazov, a student of the left, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: “if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the ‘poor’ and the ‘downtrodden,’ then there will always be a ‘progressive’ milieu to support and defend you.” Huey Newton, George Jackson, Angela Davis, Bernardine Dorhn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Mumia Abu Jamal, H. Rap Brown, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers.
There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists — and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to an audience that was not politically left. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades refer to themselves and their pasts in similar settings today.
But they are lying. When they defend racial preferences now, for example, a principle they denounced as “racist” and fought against as “civil rights” activists then, even they must know it.
The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity, and often, therefore, without realizing that they are. The necessity for lying arises because it is the political lie that gives their cause its life.
Why, if you were one of them, for example, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role as part of humanity’s vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth they could not “understand” and that would only servie to hold them back?
If you believed that others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as part of a “vanguard.” You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the same horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the army of the saints.
That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a redeemer. To feel anointed. To be among the elect. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism of all.
That is why it is of little concern to them that their socialist schemes have run aground, burying millions of human beings in the process. That is why they don’t care that their panaceas have caused more human suffering than any injustice they have ever challenged. That is why they never learn from their “mistakes,” why the continuance of Them is more important than any truth.”.......
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Progressive%20Narcissism.htm
In a sense, Bloomfield DID kill him in '65.
It was about f***ing time, you unrepentant Stalinist b@stard.
The untold millions who perished under communism won’t be saluting you, either. At least they’re worth a prayer.
Good Ridance.
He’ll be roasting near his Hero Stalin.
Mike Bloomfield...... Paul Butterfield Band
Saw them quite a few times. As many as you saw Steve Winwood on a Ten Speed _{””
In a sense, Bloomfield DID kill him in ‘65. >>>>>>>>>
Dylan Newport reference
Yes, Mr. Seeger was a communist, but I'll bet 99% of the pop performers today are as well. Or they are communist sympathizers. It's funny to me because whether they realize it or not, they are actually capitalists. They have to be — if they weren't, they wouldn't be raking in the big bucks. I suppose they want communism only for the masses, not for themselves. No way would they give up their lavish lifestyles
It's not up to me to judge Mr. Seeger. He's in God's hands now.
Rest in peace.
Indeed and their goal is to change the very order of things (Obama: “Fundamentally transforming the United States of America”). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4
More from Horowitz:
“.....The intoxicating vision of a social redemption achieved by Them – this is what creates the left, and makes the believers so righteous in their beliefs. It did so long before Karl Marx. It is the vision of a redemptive future that continues to inspire and animate them despite the still-fresh ruins of their Communist past.
It is the same idea that is found in the Social Gospel that impressed the youthful Hillary Clinton at the United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. And it is the same idea that she later encountered in the New Left at Yale and in the Venceremos Brigade in Communist Cuba, and in the writings of the New Left editor of Tikkun magazine who introduced her to the “politics of meaning” after she had become First Lady. It is the idea that drives her comrades in the Children’s Defense Fund, the National Organization for Women, the Al Sharpton House of Justice and all the other progressive causes which for that reason still look to her as a political leader.
For the self-anointed messiahs, the goal, “social justice,” is not about rectifying particular wrongs, which would be practical and modest — and therefore conservative. Rather, their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. “Social Justice” for them is a world reborn, in which prejudice and violence and inequalities no longer exist. It is a world in which everyone is equally advantaged and lacks fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a reconstruction of human nature and of the social order itself. Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name it anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes in their totalitarian future.”....
..Because the transformation they seek is still total, the power they seek is total. No matter how many compromises they strike along the way. The compromises are themselves integral to the strategy of their mission. The transformation of the world requires the permanent entrenchment of the saints in power.....
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Progressive%20Narcissism.htm
As with so many other influential social icons, they come from affluent families of elites, seeped in communist teachings. Pete Seeger
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