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+The Constitution serves a social role by shaping the way we conceive of proper life through written law. Their legal approach limits the political imaginary, putting precedence over the struggle of the commons. Ollman 04: |
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+Bertell Ollman (professor of politics at NYU; received his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1967; has taught at the University of the West Indies and been a Visiting Professor at Oxford and Columbia Universities; Since 1970, he has given about 250 lectures on different aspects of Marxist theory in a dozen countries), “Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.” 2004. https://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/us_constitution.php SF |
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+What still needs…never be understood. |
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+The Constitution’s writing was undemocratic and made for economic elites – its emphasis on self-ownership as the basis of rights inscribes neoliberalism. Beard 13: |
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+Charles Beard (Associate professor of politics at Columbia University), “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States”. 1913. http://thenewschoolhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beard_An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Consti.pdf SF |
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+The movement for…. in their scope. |
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+We have reached a tipping point – neoliberalism is no longer able to control its spiral into disaster. Massive structural violence and extinction are inevitable without a fundamental rethinking of the current system. |
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+Faramarz Farbod (PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College), Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) LADI recut SF |
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+Global capitalism is...of no return. |
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+The alternative is the use of the commons as the social source of value. The class infused rules of the Constitution enclose moral rule, opposition to neoliberalism requires global politics that reject citizen lines. Carroll 10: |
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+William Carroll (Founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program at the University of Victoria). “Crisis, movements, counter-hegemony: in search of the new.” Published November 2010. Accessed 12/25/14. http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Interface-2-2-pp.168-198-Carroll.pdf SF |
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+MST exemplifies a…to decommodify labour. |
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+Neoliberalism’s logic is reified in educational spaces; we must reclaim education so students can imagine radical solutions. Thus, the role of the ballot, as an academic pedestal, is to vote for whoever best interrogates neoliberalism. Giroux 15: |
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+Henry A. Giroux (American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy), “Beyond Dystopian Visions in the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism”, Truthout, 11/4/2015. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33511-beyond-dystopian-visions-in-the-age-of-neoliberal-authoritarianism SF |
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+If neoliberal authoritarianism…, locally and globally. |