Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html
Relevant paragraph:
Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.
No more than he was by life in the 1930s and 40s. He watched the uncovering of the first Republican/oligarch coup plot. Then watched the man they plotted to assassinate wheel and deal with them to get legislation passed. Instead of trying and hanging them all.
Woody, a socialist, supported the Leninist revolutions. Only to watch their natural evolution. Stalin helping Hitler invade Poland. As well as exterminating ethnic polish in their own borders. Exterminating their own people etc. And all the atrocities of other individual vanguard parties.
He would be disappointed, but not surprised.
I mean, he WAS a Stalinist and supported the joint Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland.