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Caselist.CitesClass[58]

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	1	+====Neoliberalism structures academic freedom in the status quo. It sets limits on what is acceptable behavior to quell dissent and any faculty truly radical enough to challenge corporate hegemony are tossed out before they can pose a real threat. Chatterjee and Maira 14====
	2	+**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.**
	3	+Our geopolitical positions—of our immediate workplaces as well as trans- national work
	4	+AND
	5	+of labor and survival within the U.S. university system.11
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	8	+====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 ====
	9	+**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.**
	10	+The US Left has not been completely without vision. It uniformly asserts the primacy
	11	+AND
	12	+down in order to secure agreement from those who rejected their basic premises.
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	15	+====Focus on speech abstracts from material violence and class - the aff fails to correctly situate speech within the correct economic context. Nair 11====
	16	+Nair, Yasmin. "WHO LOVES TEACHING? FREE SPEECH AND THE MYTH OF THE ACADEMY AS A PLACE TO LOVE AND BE THE LEFT." Arab Studies Quarterly 33.3/4 (2011): 204-216.
	17	+Along the way, even newer academics will increasingly explore the world of op
	18	+AND
	19	+that it acknowledge the quotidian forms of violence that enable its very existence
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	22	+====This turns the case – the commodification of speech reflects the capitalist illusion of freedom. It makes speech meaningless and kills value to life.====
	23	+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
	24	+One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have
	25	+AND
	26	+which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.~~13~~
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	29	+====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====
	30	+ ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2)
	31	+Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises
	32	+AND
	33	+enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return.
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	36	+====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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	38	+**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.**
	39	+We began this essay with the observation that, at the very moment when
	40	+AND
	41	+interests in the Muslim world and the systemic needs of capitalist accumulation.
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	44	+====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. ====
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	47	+====Neoliberalism operates through a narrow vision of politics that sustains itself through the illusion of pragmatism. We should refuse their demand for a plan. Blalock, JD, 2015 ====
	48	+(Corinne, "NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS OF LEGAL THEORY", Duke University, LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS Vol. 77:71) MG from file
	49	+RECOVERING LEGAL THEORY'S RELEVANCE? The lens of neoliberalism not only allows one to see
	50	+AND
	51	+they are in a world that constantly insists that there is no alternative.

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	1	+2017-04-29 16:41:51.835

Judge

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	1	+Preston Stolte

Opponent

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	1	+Cedar Park MG

ParentRound

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	1	+46

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 v3

Tournament

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	1	+TOC