"perhaps he was a communist like i'm a racist... "

One of the best lines you've ever written Big Al :0)
You have written a lot of good stuff, but you could construct a great song around that one line...well done.

The point is, I know that Hamish Henderson never joined the Communist Party, before or after Hungary.
He may have agreed with some Communist policies....we all do that, he certainly supported Scottish Nationalism, he supported our armed forces, unlike some "socialists" here......he was as Gaughan says an independent thinker