03/09: Pete Seeger Now Sees Stalinism for What It Was: Death
Category: American History and Politics
Posted by: an okie gardener
Here. From the New York Sun. Link from Instapundit.
Pete Seeger, folk-singer legend and member of the Old Left, now acknowledges the evil of Stalinism and sings about it in his new song The Big Joe Blues.
"I'm singing about old Joe, cruel Joe," the lyrics read. "He ruled with an iron hand / He put an end to the dreams / Of so many in every land / He had a chance to make / A brand new start for the human race / Instead he set it back / Right in the same nasty place / I got the Big Joe Blues / (Keep your mouth shut or you will die fast) / I got the Big Joe Blues / (Do this job, no questions asked) / I got the Big Joe Blues."
Better late than never. I think it was Susan Sontag who wrote that it should discomfort New York liberals that subscribers to The Readers' Digest were given a truer understanding of the Soviet Union than subscribers to elite journals.
Pete Seeger, folk-singer legend and member of the Old Left, now acknowledges the evil of Stalinism and sings about it in his new song The Big Joe Blues.
"I'm singing about old Joe, cruel Joe," the lyrics read. "He ruled with an iron hand / He put an end to the dreams / Of so many in every land / He had a chance to make / A brand new start for the human race / Instead he set it back / Right in the same nasty place / I got the Big Joe Blues / (Keep your mouth shut or you will die fast) / I got the Big Joe Blues / (Do this job, no questions asked) / I got the Big Joe Blues."
Better late than never. I think it was Susan Sontag who wrote that it should discomfort New York liberals that subscribers to The Readers' Digest were given a truer understanding of the Soviet Union than subscribers to elite journals.
