Pete and the red thread that sews it altogther.

Pete Seeger was a member of Community Church of New York (Unitarian Universalist.) He was a humanist who found God everywhere. He was an environmental activist. He was an anti racist. He was a fierce defender of the people's art, the artist as prophet. Pete Seeger was a Communist.

Today some are saying he was a great and multifacted man despite the fact that he was a Communist. But perhaps Pete was Pete because he was a Communist, because his engagement with the struggle for liberation from capitalism brought him to God, to beautiful music, to life long solidarity with the outcast and the despised. Perhaps the thread that holds Pete Seeger's multifacted life together was his youthful decision to join the Young Communist League and to keep struggling despite disillusionment with Stalin and Mao and all those who took the path of violence and coercion in the name of liberation. Pete kept going, never looking back. His attachment wasn't to the Party, (whose leaders real politic brought discredit on the goal), No, Pete Seeger's commitment remained inclusive and genuine democratic liberation for all.