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+====Recognizing that the epistemology of capitalism manipulates our understanding of policy is a pre-condition to evaluating the resolution through moral fameworks. 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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+move on. Recent events in eastern Europe only confirm such a judgment. |
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+====Neoliberalism structures academic freedom in the status quo. It sets limits on what is acceptable behavior to quell dissent and any facult truly radical enough to challenge corporate hegemony are tossed out before they can pose a real threat. Chatterjee and Maira 14==== |
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+**Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. "The Imperial University: race, war, and the nation-state." The imperial university: Academic repression and scholarly dissent (2014): 1-50.** |
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+Our geopolitical positions—of our immediate workplaces as well as trans- national work |
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+of labor and survival within the U.S. university system.11 |
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+====Free speech is an illusion propagated by corporatists – their model of rights assumes an equal playing field analogous to free market economists view of capital. The promotion of free speech perpetuates the idea that speech is a commodity, which strengthens neoliberalism’s hold on the academy. Brown 15==== |
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+**Brown, Wendy. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. MIT Press, 2015.** |
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+At times, kennedy raises the pitch in Citizens United to depict limits on corporate |
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+warring forces parallel to those of government and capital in a neoliberal economy. |
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+====This turns the case – the commodification of speech reflects the capitalist illusion of freedom. It makes speech meaningless and kills value to life. Smith ‘14==== |
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+R.C. **Smith** April 24, 20**14** "POWER, CAPITAL and THE RISE OF THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: ON THE ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY, ETHICS, DISENCHANTMENT and CRITICAL THEORY" Heathwood Institute and Press http://www.heathwoodpress.com/power-capital-the-rise-of-the-mass-surveillance-state-on-the-absence-of-democracy-ethics-disenchantment-critical-theory/ JJN from file |
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+One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have |
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+which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.~~13~~ |
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+====The ballot represents a choice between competing visions of social change – elevating the aff above the individual endorsement of the aff debater is false. The debate round represents competing strategies for social change: the question is not who does the alt or plan, but of a world without capitalism vs. the affirmative. Agency questions are irrelevant—we don’t have to win the alternative spills over, just that rejection in this round is comparatively better than the aff—any other evaluation makes no sense because the judge isn’t in a position to do the aff either. Critiquing assumptions is the best way to leverage change. ==== |
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+Reinsborough, 03 (Organizer, Rainforest Action Network and Wake Up America Campaign) 03 (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, August 2003, Volume 1, Issue 2, Patrick). |
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+Direct action— actions that either symbolically or directly shift power relations— is an |
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+find the rumors that start revolutions and ask the questions that topple empires. |
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+====Our critique independently outweighs the case - neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities – the affs single issue legalistic solution is the exact kind of politics neolib wants us to engage in so the root cause to go unquestioned. Farbod 15==== |
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+ ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) |
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+Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises |
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+enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. |