his whole record ( in my mind )is compromised because he had feet of clay

Your judgment call is yours to make, and mine is mine. When I first encountered the Revival I was deeply bored by the hectoring earnestness and sentimentality which I thought were characteristic of it, particularly in its more radical elements. It took me a while to get through to traditional songs, and to realise that a lot of them are damn good songs. At this point I realised that I owed MacColl a debt of gratitude for his work in making those songs heard, whatever his politics were. Some time after that, I had a proper listen to some of his own songs - not just the Manchester Rambler and Dirty Old Town - and realised that they were damn good songs as well. So I salute him for that as well.

To answer your question, such as it was: firstly, MacColl plainly wasn't a Fascist - he had a lifelong commitment to the cause of working people. In retrospect we don't agree with every decision he made, but the overall shape of his life and work suggests that we've got no right to smear him in the way you're suggesting. Secondly, even if we discovered tomorrow that MacColl actually *was* a Fascist who hoped the Nazis would win, it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the work he did as a collector, a populariser and a writer.