Pete Seeger was at Obama's in inaugural. He joined the - communist party in 1942. He said Posted: Jan 15th, 2021 - 7:39 am In Reply to: Calling to boycott every Hollywood personality - participating in inaugeration.
he's still a communist in 2004. Seeger attended Harvard University, where he majored in sociology, founded a radical newspaper, and joined the Young Communist League.
In the mid-to-late 1930s Seeger embraced the goals of the Popular Front, which were adopted by the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in 1935. As Manhattan Institute scholar Howard Husock writes:
“[T]he Popular Front tasked communists in the West with building ‘progressive’ coalitions with various institutions—including political parties and labor unions—that the party had previously denounced as bourgeois and corrupt…. Following this new strategy, the American Communist Party suddenly asserted that it wanted to build upon, not destroy, American institutions…. The Popular Front sought to enlist Western artists and intellectuals, some of them not party members but ‘fellow travelers,’ to use art, literature, and music to insinuate the Marxist worldview into the broader culture.”
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