While I am sure I am not as learned as Mr.Radosh about the timeline of Pete Seegers life I believe... [MORE]

Vinnie Cangemi

Feb 29, 2008 01:13

"Time for Pete Seeger To Repent." In my youth it was a communist's duty to openly "confess" his sins against the... [MORE]

Alan II

Feb 28, 2008 07:57

In my younger years I was a Seegerholic. I couldn't get enough of the man. I loved his music, his... [MORE]

E.M. Bennatan

Feb 19, 2008 04:43

Like Ron Radosh, I grew up admiring Pete Seeger and--as a folksinger myself--deplored the fact that the blacklist limited his... [MORE]

John B. Sprung

Sep 4, 2007 15:31

Hi Ron, forgive my ignorance, but have you vocally denounced Bush for the atrocities committed in Cuba and Iraq? [MORE]

James

Sep 4, 2007 14:01

It takes a true son of the Party to equivocate Guantanamo with the GuLag: Guantanamo, whose inmates gain weight while... [MORE]

Ed

Sep 5, 2007 10:45

This is why I read The Sun... Ed, please run for office... the higher the better! [MORE]

alan

Sep 9, 2007 20:56

Folks, Pete never advocated for a violent overthrow of the US government. He did support a socialist agenda and working... [MORE]

Lou Farrell

Sep 3, 2007 20:33

...and intellectual honesty to see that you have been wrong about something and to actually admit it. Kudos to Mr.... [MORE]

Audrey

Sep 3, 2007 19:50

all the self-righteous people of course will put down Pete for not having spoken up earlier--even though he is know... [MORE]

dvid still

Sep 3, 2007 19:02

Mr. Seeger has, however tardy the revelation, come to see the light. Ours is not to wonder why now but... [MORE]

Trotting Mercury

Sep 3, 2007 13:18

Seeger had hoped... that both Khrushchev and later Gorbachev would "open things up." RD. Krushchev tried in his erratic half-hearted way,... [MORE]

Roger DesMoulins

Sep 2, 2007 17:56

I had the opportunity awhile back to work with Pete S. on a project. Although I disagreed with almost all... [MORE]

Tim Idd.

Aug 31, 2007 23:10

A friend in Estonia told me once that during the years of Soviet Occupation, twenty percent of the population disappeared,... [MORE]

George French

Aug 31, 2007 15:17

When the Conservatives of this country apologize for rolling into bed with Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler, then I'll look to... [MORE]

Grif

Sep 3, 2007 04:44

Seeger is, if nothing else, a mover, who throughout his life keeps moving right. And while he is way to... [MORE]

Ignatiur R Grace

Aug 31, 2007 14:56

Seeger may have been the most visible of a number of folksingers who dedicated themselves to criticising an imperfect West... [MORE]

Doug Huggins

Aug 31, 2007 13:52

It is wonderful, not to mention surprising, that Mr. Seeger will allow to criticism. Good for you, Mr. Seeger, and... [MORE]

Dan Davis

Aug 31, 2007 13:08

While Seeger is to be commended for his belated admission of remaining silent about Stalin's horrors, read more carefully, he... [MORE]

Mike Perry, Inkling Books, Seattle

Aug 31, 2007 11:43

Better late than never. Thumbs up to Mr. Seeger

Sean

Aug 31, 2007 11:31

Dear Ron,Thanks for the update on Pete. As is occurring in my own life, as we get older it's important... [MORE]

George Fletcher

Aug 31, 2007 11:28

Total nonsense. Like a true aparatchik, he kept his mouth shut when it could have done any good, and only... [MORE]

tom

Aug 31, 2007 16:29

The song is a worthy effort. But the chance that Stalin had was when he took the wheel of Lenin's... [MORE]

Ed

Sep 6, 2007 10:10

When I was a kid in the 60's I learned to play the guitar with one of his books and... [MORE]

Don

Feb 28, 2008 09:25

I hate to ruin part of the premise of Ron Radosh's criticism, but Pete Seeger had, in fact, apologized for... [MORE]

Andy Buck

Aug 31, 2007 10:45

I find this moving. I have only met Pete Seeger once - at the Institute of Western American Culture in... [MORE]

Rob Perelli-Minetti

Aug 31, 2007 10:41

Had been living under communism through 1982 I've never dreamt that one day I'll have a warm feeling toward Pete... [MORE]

Tibor Csipan

Aug 31, 2007 09:46

I have always loved Pete's music, agree with his desire for social and civil rights, agreed with his right,... [MORE]

Steve Dickey

Aug 31, 2007 17:53

When ii first became a student at the High School of Music and Art in the early fifties I encountered... [MORE]

leo solomon

Sep 3, 2007 04:59