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Lee Siegel

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 18, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Lee Siegel

    Woke 1.0 was crazy, and it isn't over (opens the original)

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    “Woke 1.0 was crazy.” So saideth Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and it’s a measure of the inanity of American politics now, and of its dangerous formlessness, that her offhand remark created a storm of commentary. The left scrambled to concede woke’s excesses while defending its essence; the right rushed to declare that it will never allow the left to grant a dispensation to itself for a decade of social and cultural instability. Both responses were right: woke was ruinous. Both responses were wrong:

  2. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Lee Siegel

    The truth about America’s new “socialists” (opens the original)

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    Donald Trump has been warning of a "communist menace"

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Lee Siegel

    The truth about America's new "socialists" (opens the original)

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    “The state,” Marx wrote, “is based on the contradiction between public and private life.” In other words, the vast number of individuals labour in full view while a small number of individuals reap the profits from the labourers’ work in secret. Social crisis erupts when the contradiction is laid bare. That is why, Marx believed, the capitalist state “must assert unity where there is conflict and contradiction”. This process of concealment, he wrote, amounted to an “exorcised contradiction”. Lea

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