And it’s not Joe McCarthy. Nope. Joe Stalin. It’s about 70 years late, but the old commie folk singer has finally acknowledged that Stalin was a villain.

When I was in college in the 1970s, I boycotted Seeger’s concert because he was an apologist for Stalin. Even then, few of my classmates had any idea of what I was muttering about. Fewer still will greet the admission of error (in a letter to Ron Radosh) with understanding. But it’s good to have for the record I guess.