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+First, Framework. Recognizing that the epistemology of capitalism manipulates our understanding of policy is a pre-condition to evaluating the resolution. Marsh 95, |
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+Marsh 95- Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, PhD from Northwestern University (James, Critique Action and Liberation, p 331-2) |
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+Is it reasonable, therefore, even to talk about the possibility of a socialism |
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+AND |
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+move on. Recent events in eastern Europe only confirm such a judgment. |
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+The role of the ballot and judge as an educator is to reject arguments based on asymmetrical power relations—because pedagogical contexts are inherently political, we have a unique opportunity to promote real change. Trifonas 03, |
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+PETER PERICLES TRIFONAS. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE/ RoutledgeFalmer. New York, London. 2003. Questia. |
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+If we superimpose my formulation of “power as relation” on the discussion concerning |
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+to make the world a better place for us and for our children. |
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+Second, Links. The energy debate has been subsumed into a single-issue form of politics—it’s a palliative that forces us into ignoring the class struggle at the heart of energy politics—the Kritik turns case; sustainable energy change can only occur with the alternative. Huber ‘13 |
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+Huber 13 Matt “What do we mean by “Energy Policy”? Life, Capitalism, and the Broader Field of Energy Politics” State of Nature May 4th 2013 http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=7138 |
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+In the 1970s we saw the rise of a peculiar concept: “energy policy |
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+AND |
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+begin to reimagine life and freedom as only possible through collective political struggle. |
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+Nuclear power is not intrinsically harmful or dangerous. The ruling class’s control over the technology makes those harms possible. They choose to build the plants near minority populations or to cut corners during their construction. Turns case—freeing technology from the limitations of capitalism solves the aff. SLP ‘81 |
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+SLP 81 “Socialism and Nuclear Power” A Socialist Labor Party Statement 1981 http://www.slp.org/res_state_htm/soc_nuc_power.html |
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+Socialists can bring many important insights to the questions and concerns raised by nuclear technology |
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+AND |
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+the horror it currently is to the benefactor of an emancipated working class. |
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+State regulations fail identify the our system failures combating the ecological crisis—all policy focused approaches operate within the logic of capitalism and serve its interests. Liodakis ‘01 |
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+Liodakis 01 (George, Professor of Social Science at Technical University of Crete, The people-nature relation and the historical significance of the Labour Theory of Value, Capital and Class, Spring 2001, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3780/is_200104/ai_n8940388) JXu |
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+The overall attempt to respond to the exacerbated ecological crisis, from the side of |
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+the whole, the latter being the global economy and the planetary ecosystem. |
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+Third, Impact. Capitalism causes extinction—multiple ways. Webb 04, |
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+Webb, 04 (Sam Webb, National Chairman, Communist Party USA. “War, Capitalism, and George W. Bush.” 4-20-04. http://www.pww.org/article/view/ 4967/1/207/O/) |
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+Capitalism was never a warm, cuddly, stable social system. It came into |
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+AND |
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+pressures, and endemic diseases, is the threat of nuclear mass annihilation. |
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+Fourth, the alternative is the rise of an environmental working class that breaks down hegemonic structures and capitalism. Foster ‘13 |
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+Foster 13 – John Bellamy Foster, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Editor of the Monthly Review, holds a Ph.D. from York University, 2013 (“The Epochal Crisis,” Monthly Review, Volume 65, Issue 05 (October), Accessed on 7/18/2014 from http://monthlyreview.org/2013/10/01/epochal-crisis) |
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+It is an indication of the sheer enormity of the historical challenge confronting humanity in |
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+AND |
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+that we already have the potential many times over to redirect production and consumption |
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+n to meet human needs and to practice conservation on a global level, creating |
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+humanity thus rests as never before on the revolutionary struggle of humanity itself. |