After reading through the Wikipedia article (allowing some for the leftist bias of the platform), it seems to me he was one of the “honest socialists” like Orwell, who supported the causes that arose from legitimate needs for reform, but rejected the underlying Marxism-Leninism tyranny that the Soviets embraced.

Dalton Trumbo published Johnny Got His Gun, circa 1940, a book espousing pacifism. In early 1941, the Almanac Singers—who had Pete Seeger as a member—-published Songs for John Doe, which had a number of songs preaching for pacifism and against US entry into WW2.

After Hitler’s invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, Pete Seeger and his cohorts withdrew Songs for John Doe from circulation. Pacifism for the US no longer fit the party line, so Pete and the Almanac Singers were no longer pacifists. Ditto with Trumbo and Johnny Got His Gun. During WWs2, Dalton Trumbo turned into the FBI the names of genuine pacifists who inquired about Johnny Got His Gun. Sounds a little inconsistent with Dalton’s “courage” regarding his refusal to name names to the HUAC.

Like Dalton Trumbo’s Pete Seeger’s “honesty” regarding pacifism and the US entering into WW2 was not honesty of pacifism beliefs, but honestly changing one’s viewpoints according to what the party line was at the moment.

Pete’s condemnation of Stalin? IIRC, that occurred rather late—in the 21st century when he made a public statement about Stalin.

I read it once but do not have a link for it, but in his later years, Pete Seeger made the point that his father left the Communists after the 1939 Nonaggression Pact that Stalin signed w Germany. Pete implied that was a better path than he had followed.

https://thenewneo.com/2026/06/02/open-thread-6-2-2026/#comment-2853436

I discovered the error while appending this comment:
Seeger was a full-fledged card-carrying Communist during the 1940s, but broke with the CPUSA when Stalin’s atrocities finally became known.
After reading through the Wikipedia article (allowing some for the leftist bias of the platform), it seems to me he was one of the “honest socialists” like Orwell, who supported the causes that arose from legitimate needs for reform, but rejected the underlying Marxism-Leninism tyranny that the Soviets embraced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

At the time, one of Seeger’s critics was “the Council for Democracy (an organization that Friedrich and Henry Luce’s right-hand man, C. D. Jackson, Vice President of Time magazine, had founded “to combat all the Nazi, fascist, communist, pacifist” antiwar groups in the United States).”

Most conservatives have noticed that, in the intervening decades, somehow the first two groups got separated from the third as political labels.

“Pacifism” is the thing that’s not-like-the-others, but IIRC authentic anti-war pacifists were often used as a front by the other three ideologists to deter the Allies during the war, and then by the USSR afterwards to obstruct meddling in its own wars.

If I have any of that wrong, I gladly accept clarification.

The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator’s Deadly Return to Suburban America

https://a.co/d/0duSoOjF

Since then, the only cat is a fluffy house cat that cruises through about 3am every few nights. Mowing used to produce a vole stampede. Since the cat and a pair of Ravens showed up, no voles, none. The Ravens have a nest. They used to fly around together but now we only see them one at a time going to and from the nest.

Here is a short video from last month as they are surfing the wind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEcC8Xk-gc

Note Cougars are not endangered and they are beautiful and amazing, but they are apex predators who belong … in the mountains.