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Caselist.CitesClass[55]

Cites

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	4	+====The problem of the neoliberal status quo is not a lack of communication, but rather the fetishization of speech. Our society has never been more democratic, which is precisely what allows capitalism to operate. Radical politics requires a rejection of democratic institutions readily available – anything short kills class focus. Dean 14 ====
	5	+**Dean, Jodi. "13 After Post-Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism." The post-political and its discontents: Spaces of depoliticization, spectres of radical politics (2014): 261.**
	6	+The US Left has not been completely without vision. It uniformly asserts the primacy
	7	+AND
	8	+order to secure agreement from those who rejected their basic premises.
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	12	+====Protests are a ruse – they are a reactive form of politics that focuses purely on affect and cedes institutional politics. Srniceke 15====
	13	+**Srnicek, PHD, and Williams, PhD Candidate , 15**
	14	+(Nick, PhD IR @LSE, Alex, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a world without work)
	15	+Today it appears that the greatest amount of effort is needed to achieve the smallest
	16	+AND
	17	+what we call 'folk-political' thinking. (5-9)
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	20	+====Turn, protests perpetuate the idea that if you speak loud enough your voice will be heard, which perpetuates capitalism. **Rickford 16. ====**
	21	+Russel Rickford (an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination. A specialist on the Black Radical Tradition, he teaches about social movements, black transnationalism, and African-American political culture after World War Two). "The Fallacies of Neoliberal Protest". Black Perspectives. September 24, 2016. http://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacies-of-neoliberal-protest/ AGM
	22	+Fallacy Number Three: The Myth of the Disembodied Voice. Part of capitalism's response
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	24	+boardrooms, the halls of Congress, or other strongholds of global capital.
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	27	+====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====
	28	+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
	29	+One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have
	30	+AND
	31	+which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.~~13~~
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	34	+====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====
	35	+ ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2)
	36	+Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises
	37	+AND
	38	+enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return.
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	41	+====The alternative is to abandon the affirmative's hope for more discourse in favor of militant class struggle – rather than looking for new ways to dissent, a radical leftist project must begin with reimagining political formations outside of capitalism. The real lesson of the 60's is that activism centered on rights is a failed project that the affirmative tries to reinvent, which will lead to the same result. Hickel 12====
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	43	+**Hickel, Jason ~~London School of Economics and Political Science~~, and Arsalan Khan ~~University of Virginia~~. "The culture of capitalism and the crisis of critique." Anthropological Quarterly 85.1 (2012): 203-227.**
	44	+We began this essay with the observation that, at the very moment when
	45	+AND
	46	+interests in the Muslim world and the systemic needs of capitalist accumulation.
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	49	+====The role of the judge is to be a critical analyst testing whether the underlying assumptions of the AFF are valid. This is a question of the whether the AFF scholarship is good – not the passage of the plan. ====

EntryDate

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	1	+2017-03-04 03:07:53.998

Judge

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	1	+Leo Kim

Opponent

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	1	+Loyola AO

ParentRound

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	1	+43

Round

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	1	+2

Team

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	1	+Harvard Westlake Chaudhary Neg

Title

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	1	+JAN-FEB Cap K v2

Tournament

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	1	+USC