The politics are born from the class & cultural condesension that typifies the early revival (and upon which it was predicated as an ideology) irrespective of the political leanings of its perpetrators. In this respect, there is just as much class & cultural condescension on the left as there is on the right, which accounts for my general revulsion of political songwriting in general - folk or otherwise, be it Ewan MacColl or Robert Wyatt, both of whom I love in other respects. Whatever Sharp's actual political allegiances may or may not have been, the image that emerges (in The Imagined Village certainly) is that of an authoritarian autocrat hung up on his absolute correctness in matters of the culture of Folk Dance and Song.