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	1	+Identity precludes the fundamental nature of class relations as the primary power relation deterministic of all other sources of oppression – the combination waters down the alt and makes it entirely ineffectual. ROB should be to vote for whoever better presents the better strategy against capitalism.
	2	+Gimenez 1 (Prof. Sociology at UC Boulder) Martha, “Marxism and Class; Gender and Race”, Race, Gender and Class, Vol. 8, p. online: http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/work/cgr.html
	3	+There are many competing theories of race, gender, class, American society,
	4	+AND
	5	+ethnomethodology ignores power relations. Power relations underlie all processes of social interaction a
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	10	+nd this is why social facts are constraining upon people. But the pervasiveness of
	11	+AND
	12	+what happens in social interactions grounded in "intersectionality" is class power.
	13	+Capitalism causes mass death, anti-blackness, and environmental destruction.
	14	+Dean 15 (Jodi, Political Theorist @ Hobart William Colleges, “Red, Black, and Green” Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, 27:3, pp. 399-401)
	15	+Two ideas voiced in the present discussion impress the urgency of the need for a left party oriented toward communism: racism (Buck 2015) and the Anthropocene (Healy 2015).
	16	+Given anthropogenic climate change, the stakes of contemporary politics are almost unimaginably high.
	17	+AND
	18	+and soon. Forcing that change is the political challenge of our time.
	19	+Given the persistence of racialized violence and the operation of the state as an instrument
	20	+AND
	21	+ideas need to be chosen, systematized into a program, and defended.
	22	+Consciously reiterating the colors of the Black Liberation Flag, the red, black,
	23	+AND
	24	+dismantling of the carbon-based economy and the global redistribution of wealth.
	25	+The three colors should not be read as three separate issues or groups. They
	26	+AND
	27	+the Left that have stood in the way of our forging collective counterpower.
	28	+Here and now, movements are pushing the organizational convergence of communist, climate,
	29	+AND
	30	+relate to ourselves as comrades, as solidary members of a fighting collective.
	31	+The alternative is to stop and think Communism – breaking free from the political closure of the status quo requires refusing the call to radical action in favor of developing a new, comprehensive understanding of the institutional constraints of the status quo.
	32	+Swyngedouw and Wilson 14 (Erik, Professor of Geography @ Manchester U., and Japhy, Lecturer in International Political Economy and Hallsworth Research Fellow @ Manchester U., “There Is No Alternative,” The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics, pp. 308-310)
	33	+The idea of communism may appear as little more than a mirage on the political
	34	+AND
	35	+one that haunted Europe in 1848: the real possibility of communism now.
	36	+But the communism that haunts the contemporary Left is not a real possibility. It
	37	+AND
	38	+-lived Bakhtinian carnivals whose geographical staging is carefully choreographed by the state.
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	42	+The relationship between our critical theories and the political as egalitarian-emancipatory process has
	43	+AND
	44	+, aims to take control again of life and its conditions of possibility.
	45	+Communism as a hypothesis and political practice is much older than the twentieth century and
	46	+AND
	47	+1966, which was brutally smashed by the forces of the Chinese state.
	48	+The key task, therefore, is to stop and think, to think communism
	49	+AND
	50	+a truth that can only be established through a new emancipatory political sequence.
	51	+The communist hypothesis forces itself onto the terrain of the political through the process of
	52	+AND
	53	+keep saying there is no alternative, when there really is no alternative?

EntryDate

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	1	+2016-11-21 04:14:29.200

Judge

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	1	+Lauren Burdt

Opponent

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	1	+Oak Hall KZ

ParentRound

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	1	+24

Round

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	1	+6

Team

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	1	+Harker Malyugina Neg

Title

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	1	+ND - K - Cap K Short

Tournament

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	1	+Glenbrooks