The martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a monumental figure in Hezbollah and the broader resistance movement against "Israel", marks a turning point not in Hezbollah's demise but in its renewal. Sayyed Nasrallah's martyrdom, while symbolically significant, has unveiled the inner core of the Resistance's structure that transcends individual leadership. The spirit of revolution within Hezbollah is not simply the product of charismatic leadership but rather a response to systemic imperialist violence and the structural waste that capitalism imposes on the Global South.
As seen in the genocide of Arabs in Gaza, Sayyed Nasrallah's martyrdom fits into the broader imperialist strategy of waste—the systematic destruction and consumption of labor and resources in the Global South, as theorized by Ali Kadri. Under capitalism, Resistance movements like Hezbollah emerge as responses to what Kadri calls the "accumulation of waste," where imperialism not only exploits but consumes populations, reducing them to wasted labor and discarded lives. Sayyed Nasrallah's martyrdom represents an imperialist tactic to neutralize symbols of defiance, but as history shows, the death of leaders often galvanizes rather than demoralizes resistance.