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+==Cap K== |
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+====The aff's focus on reforming the energy sector ignores the way in which energy is embedded in social and historical context, which reinforces capitalist structures of domination.==== |
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+**Huber 13** Matt Huber, 5-4-2013, "What do we mean by "Energy Policy"? Life, Capitalism, and the Broader Field of Energy Politics by Matt Huber," No Publication, http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=7138 – Hebron AL |
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+In the 1970s we saw the rise of a peculiar concept: "energy policy |
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+begin to reimagine life and freedom as only possible through collective political struggle. |
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+====Nuclear power's flaws are a product of class society. The aff's focus on banning the technology completely ignores it's emancipatory potential for workers.==== |
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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 - Hebron AL |
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+Socialists can bring many important insights to the questions and concerns raised by nuclear technology |
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+the horror it currently is to the benefactor of an emancipated working class. |
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+====3 impacts:==== |
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+====a) Capitalism is the root cause of all of their impacts – the system of capital produces the material reality, which makes their impacts inevitable.==== |
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+**Zizek 8** Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a professor at the European Graduate School, Violence, 2008 p. 11-12 - Hebron AL |
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+There is an old joke about a husband who returns home earlier than usual from |
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+in shambles. We see a lot of ecological decay and human misery. |
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+====b) Aside from the alternative, you have an ethical obligation to reject every instance of neoliberal ideology. This takes out the perm since reconciliation allows capitalism to continue unharmed. As long as we allow capitalist structures to continue, we remove our ability to overthrow and replace the system.==== |
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+**Zizek and Daly 4** Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16, 2004 – Hebron AL |
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+For Zizek it is imperative that we cut |
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+to absorb them within a culture of differential affirmation. |
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+====c) Capitalism is structurally unsustainable, we have no control over it.==== |
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+**Foster 5** John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, "Naked Imperialism" Monthly review Volume 57, Number 4, 2005 – Hebron AL |
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+The United States is seeking to exercise sovereign authority over the planet during a time |
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+and world capitalism is now headed points to global barbarism—or worse. |
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+====The alternative is to completely withdraw from the logic of capital. This is essential to destroy the mindset that allows capital to survive – individual criticism is key to solve.==== |
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+**Johnston 4**^^^^Adrian Johnson, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December v9 i3 p259 – Hebron AL |
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+Perhaps the absence of a detailed practical roadmap in Žižek's political writings isn't a major |
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+belief in others' belief in the socioperformative force emanating from this same material. |
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+====Thus the role of the ballot is: Resisting Capitalism. ==== |
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+====Underview.==== |