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-Class must be foregrounded – intersectionality 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. |
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-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 |
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-There are many competing theories of race, gender, class, American society, |
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-ethnomethodology ignores power relations. Power relations underlie all processes of social interaction and this is why social facts are constraining upon people. But the pervasiveness of |
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-what happens in social interactions grounded in "intersectionality" is class power. |
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-Queering identity falls in line with neoliberal governmentality – the aff gets co-opted in favor of creating new markets for queers |
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-Ladelle McWhorter 12 – Professor of Philosophy, Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Studies, University of Richmond, “Queer Economies”, Foucault Studies, No. 14, pp. 61-78, September 2012 |
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-Neoliberal Subjectivity My focus in this article, however, is not population management but |
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-into resisting neoliberalism? I believe so, and I believe we should. |
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-Narrativity as resistance distracts from collective politics by valorizing the individual overcoming of the individual |
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-Coughlin 95 |
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-Anne, associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School, REGULATING THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERFORMANCES IN OUTSIDER SCHOLARSHIP, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1229 |
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-The outsider narratives do not reflect on another feature of autobiographical discourse that is perhaps |
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- political, economic, social and psychological structures that attend such success. |
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-n211 In this light, the outsider autobiographies unwittingly deflect attention from collective social |
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-, rather than subvert, autobiographical protagonists that serve the values of liberalism. |
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-Capitalism causes mass death, anti-blackness, and environmental destruction. |
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-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) |
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-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). |
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-Given anthropogenic climate change, the stakes of contemporary politics are almost unimaginably high. |
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-and soon. Forcing that change is the political challenge of our time. |
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-Given the persistence of racialized violence and the operation of the state as an instrument |
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-ideas need to be chosen, systematized into a program, and defended. |
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-Consciously reiterating the colors of the Black Liberation Flag, the red, black, |
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-dismantling of the carbon-based economy and the global redistribution of wealth. |
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-The three colors should not be read as three separate issues or groups. They |
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-the Left that have stood in the way of our forging collective counterpower. |
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-Here and now, movements are pushing the organizational convergence of communist, climate, |
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-relate to ourselves as comrades, as solidary members of a fighting collective. |
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-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. |
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-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) |
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-The idea of communism may appear as little more than a mirage on the political |
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-one that haunted Europe in 1848: the real possibility of communism now. |
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-But the communism that haunts the contemporary Left is not a real possibility. It |
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--lived Bakhtinian carnivals whose geographical staging is carefully choreographed by the state. The relationship between our critical theories and the political as egalitarian-emancipatory process has AND |
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-, aims to take control again of life and its conditions of possibility. |
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-Communism as a hypothesis and political practice is much older than the twentieth century and |
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-1966, which was brutally smashed by the forces of the Chinese state. |
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-The key task, therefore, is to stop and think, to think communism |
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-a truth that can only be established through a new emancipatory political sequence. |
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-The communist hypothesis forces itself onto the terrain of the political through the process of |
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-keep saying there is no alternative, when there really is no alternative? |