Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin shekarun 1950, mawaƙa masu ra'ayin hagu kamar Paul Robeson da The Weavers sun fara ganin cewa rayuwa ta zama mai wahala saboda tasirin McCarthyism. Seeger ta ziyarci Kwaminisanci na kasar Sin kuma a sakamakon haka an janye fasfo dinta na Amurka. A shekara ta 1957, Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen Amurka ta yi adawa da halartar Seeger a bikin 6 na Duniya na Matasa da Dalibai
a Moscow (inda CIA ta sa ido ga tawagar Amurka), kuma ta yi kakkausar suka game da tafiyarta zuwa China a lokacin wannan tafiyar, akasin "shawarwarin" na hukuma.