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+===Part One is Epistemology=== |
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+====Examining ethical problems from an ahistoric universal position is nonsense.==== |
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+**Mingers 2K **~~(Prof J Mingers, Warwick Business School, Warwvick University) The Contribution of Critical Realism as an Underpinning Philosophy for OR/MS and Systems, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 51, No. 11 (Nov., 2000), pp.~~ |
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+Bhaskar's 12 (p 23) starting point is to argue, specifically against empiricism |
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+for applied science that may be more relevant to OR/MS (RRREI |
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+====And, an explanation of human behavior requires looking at historical and material conditions because our species depends on having our material needs met. ==== |
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+**Graham 92** ~~Keith, Karl Marx Our Contemporary: Social Theory for a Post-Leninist World, University of Toronto Press, 1992~~ |
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+Embedded in his Preface to A Contribution to the Critiue of Political Economy there is |
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+must daily and hourly be fulfilled merely in order to sustain human life." |
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+====It is impossible to analyze these conditions absent a social context as those in different classes will differently experience the fulfilling of their own material needs. ==== |
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+**Jaggar 83** ~~Alison M., professor of philosophy and women studies at University of Colorado - Boulder, Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. 1983~~ |
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+Both liberal and Marxist epistemologists consider that, ~~I~~n order to arrive |
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+, redescribed as enjoyment or justified as freely chosen, deserved or inevitable. |
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+===Part Two is the Ethical Framework=== |
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+====The historical production of resources has been fundamentally capitalist and has created a system of class relations to entrench the interests of the powerful.==== |
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+**Berger 91** ~~Arthur Asa, Media Analysis Techniques, Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1991~~ |
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+The bourgeoisie, according to this theory, averts class conflict by indoctrinating the proletariat |
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+to Marxist analysts, as the likelihood of a revolution seems rather distant. |
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+====Indeed, the most important method to check capitalism is to question and expose the ideology that sustains class relations, which creates a false consciousness that sustains oppression by giving it the means to justify itself. Eyerman writes:==== |
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+**Eyerman 81** ~~Ron (Professor of Sociology), Yale. "False Consciousness and Ideology in Marxist Theory" Acta Sociologica, Vol. 24, No. 1/2, Work and Ideology (1981), pp. 43-56~~ |
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+As in Gramsci's thought, the movement from false consciousness to class consciousness is one |
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+that it know the truth, which includes the necessity of social revolution. |
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+====Hence, the goal of the resolution should be to minimize oppressive ideologies because: 1) The resolution questions what we ought to do and the arbitrary oppression of groups harms them without desert, which is illegitimate under any reasonable system of ethics and 2) We epistemically should look to the experience of lived people and oppression is not desirable as evidenced by both historical and current revolutions around the globe.==== |
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+**Reid-Brinkley 08 **(Shanara Rose Reid-Brinkley, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Communications as well as the Director of Debate at the University of Pittsburgh, "The Harsh Realities Of "Acting Black": How African-American Policy Debaters Negotiate Representation Through Racial Performance And Style," 2008~~ |
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+To begin an investigation of these questions of race, representation and performance, I |
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+it is important to read the social actors involved and watching as embodied. |
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+==== |
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+Thus the standard and role of the judge is criticizing capitalist ideologies.==== |
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+===Part Three is Historical Materialism=== |
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+====Even before the discovery of nuclear technology, the energy sector has defined the relationship between states and systems of capitalism. ==== |
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+Kohso 1 (Sabu Kohso, "Radiation and Revolution," Borderlands volume 11 number 2, Special Issue: Commons, Class Struggle and the World. 2012) |
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+Direct confrontation with this nuclearity announces the advent of a new age; an age |
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+nuclear fission or fusion and radiation) and its shaky and tricky control. |
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+====Nuclear energy and state interests have been always been historically linked through the passing of laws to ease their liability. The financial and environmental costs are shoved onto the working class through taxes and radiation.==== |
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+Kohso 2 (Sabu Kohso, "Radiation and Revolution," Borderlands volume 11 number 2, Special Issue: Commons, Class Struggle and the World. 2012) |
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+Generally speaking, even when nuclear energy generation is privately funded, "~~…~~ the state |
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+, an invisible and expansive pyramid of the new age on a global scale |
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+====Since the advent of nuclear power, the international politics has been intertwined with nuclear politics. As long as nuclear power exists, it will define the global power structures that have come to dominate the world. ==== |
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+Kohso 3 (Sabu Kohso, "Radiation and Revolution," Borderlands volume 11 number 2, Special Issue: Commons, Class Struggle and the World. 2012) |
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+Forces that both promote and rely on nuclear power are global in nature. As |
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+—has to do with a deep crisis of the commons. |
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+===Part Four is The Social Movement=== |
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+====Thus we Affirm that Resolved: countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power as an outcropping of the global anti-nuclear movement. Our affirmation isn't simply a policy action rather it is a heuristic for our movements demands.==== |
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+====Our opposition movement recalls the revolutionary fervor of the Arab Spring, rejecting historically oppressive power structures in favor of affirming the lives of the oppressed. Halting the subjugation of the working class requires the rejection of the nuclear apparatus and the socioeconomic hierarchy that it has created.==== |
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+Kohso 4 (Sabu Kohso, "Radiation and Revolution," Borderlands volume 11 number 2, Special Issue: Commons, Class Struggle and the World. 2012) |
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+To tackle this, it is necessary to have a layered scope and strategy, |
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+that is pre-personal, pre-individual, and yet singular. |
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+====Voting affirmative endorses a social critique of nuclear power. Only instrumental reform to the energy system can effectively spill over to broader systemic problems without being coopted. ==== |
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+**Martin et. Al, 84** (The main authors are Jill Bowling, Brian Martin, Val Plumwood and Ian Watson, with important contributions from Ray Kent, Basil Schur and Rosemary Walters. Strategy against nuclear power http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/86sa.html) |
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+What is a strategy anyway? A strategy links the analysis of an issue with |
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+aims at interactions with existing structures in a way which goes beyond them. |
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+====The struggle to reject the nuclear apparatus is the critical front in the global struggle against oppressive ruling ideologies. ==== |
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+Kohso 5 (Sabu Kohso, "Radiation and Revolution," Borderlands volume 11 number 2, Special Issue: Commons, Class Struggle and the World. 2012) |
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+From the vantage point of the global uprisings today, the global nuclear regime is |
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+all the struggles of the people for their survival, justice and hope. |
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+====He continues:==== |
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+Facing the expectation of slow death |
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+target of anti-capitalist and anti-statist objectives. |
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+====The oppression of the nuclear apparatus has infected every aspect of modern life. With the all-encompassing nature of the post-nuclear world, it has become impossible to promote human flourishing or achieve any other ethical goal without first investigating the way those actions are inextricably linked with radioactivity.==== |
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+Kohso 6 (Sabu Kohso, "Radiation and Revolution," Borderlands volume 11 number 2, Special Issue: Commons, Class Struggle and the World. 2012) |
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+This is a new age for life itself. Simple acts of being—breathing |
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+is telling of the nature of the struggles today and in the future. |