Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Critical Notes on Lebanon

There are essentially two images of Hezbollah: the leftist image of Hezbollah as a radical anti-imperialist organization with the interests of Lebanon at heart and the right image of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization of anti-Semitic Islamo-fascist who want Syrian control of Lebanon. “The answer is the variation of old Stalin’s answer to the question ‘Which deviation is worse, the Rightist or the Leftist one?’: THEY ARE BOTH WORSE.” (Zizek)

Hezbollah, abstracted from its concrete historical condition, is a petty-bourgeois organization that advocates the Islamicization of Lebanon and the establishment of a caliphate. Hezbollah manifests this in all of its concrete actions from its resistance to Western hegemony to its Islamic-oriented community services to its crushing of workers’ and communists’ resistance.

Hezbollah is not a progressive organization of the working people and it can only offer the masses a set of national despots rather than foreign despots. The solution to the Lebanese question is not to blindly support Hezbollah. However, Lebanon lacks a significant army of progressive working class resistance. The LCP forces of Jammoul are minimal. The answer is not Hezbollah and Islam, nor is Jammoul and Defeat. Lebanon is a historical conjunction where the progressive answer must be a bloc of classes.

This bloc must be met with constant vigilance on behalf of the proletariat. The unity of the petty-bourgeois and proletariat in its anti-imperialist cause cannot permit Islamic despotism to gain ground. Essentially, “The relationship of the revolutionary workers’ party to the petty-bourgeois democrats is this: it cooperates with them against the party which they aim to overthrow; it opposes them wherever they wish to secure their own position.” (Marx)

For those of us in the Euro-American world are message must be: Victory to the resistance! Victory to progress!


(Lebanese Communists)


Marx, Karl. “Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League” Marxists Internet Archive. March 1850. 2 August 2006.
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm>
Zizek, Slavoj. “Repeating Lenin” Marxists Internet Archive. 2001. 2 August 2006.

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