Status Updates From Hezbollah: The Political Ec...

"An important part of Hezbollah’s legitimacy in its early days was the military struggle it waged against the Israeli occupation ... the organization set up its own social services independently from the state, guaranteed the distribution of electricity during power outages, took care of garbage collection ... provided jobs [and] those employed in [its] institutions were not required to join the party."

Shoutout to the Organization of Communist Action in Lebanon for *once again* somehow recreating proletarian nation theory with their concept of “community class”

Bet that works out great and reactionaries totally don’t use it to reinforce sectarian divides

In true Marxist fashion the author spends most of the first chapter discussing the historical development of Lebanon and takes nearly 30 pages before coming to the center piece of the book that is Hezbollah