In such a context, what do distinctions such as right and left mean?

So it's important to know that what I gave right now is a panorama of the various debates in Lebanon prior to 2011 and also prior to the rise of what we used to call the new left and what we now call the old left in the 70s and 80s.

So it's not true that the debate in Lebanon is solely around national conceptions.

You actually had a very fierce debate on class.

You actually had a fierce debate on the political economy of the country.

You also had a fierce debate on the social contract of the country.

So that's another dimension of politics that I didn't get to yet.

Why has the system proved so resistant to change?