Who Picks On The Man Of Steel?

So Pete Seeger has apparently written a song bashing Josef Stalin.

Which would've been nice about, oh, fifty years ago.

Don't get me wrong, I dig Pete Seeger. The man did more to bring folk music into the popular culture than just about anyone (except maybe Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan, but there are those who would argue the point). His music remains as elemental and relevant today as it did fifty years ago. But a song about Ol' Joe now? What's the point, really? Stalin's been dead for decades, and no one still thinks he was a "good guy" really. Just because Seeger used to be a member of the Communist Party (he parted ways with them back in 1950, though). It's weird, really.

Granted, I'm sure it's a fun song, and he does still write relevant and contemporary pieces (he wrote a song about living in a post-9/11 world a few years back, actually). But this seems...too little, too late, maybe? I dunno.

~chuck

Song of the Moment: Josh Ritter, "Right Moves"