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+The judicial system is rooted in classism—the 1AC doesn’t challenge the police state, they perpetuate the exclusion of the poor |
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+Chen ‘16 |
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+Chen, Michelle. “One More Way the Courts Aren’t Working for the Poor” The Nation May 16, 2016. |
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+Unlike criminal proceedings, in which the indigent are provided with a public defender, |
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+the poor by contrast see their legal fates dictated by class and geography. |
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+The law is unequivocally a tool of capitalist oppression – trying to limit qualified immunity is just one more reform which reinforces this system. The Internationalist 14 |
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+The Internationalist, 8-1-2014, "Killer Cops, White Supremacists: Racist Terror Stalks Black America," No Publication, http://www.internationalist.org/killercopswstalkblackamerica1507.html |
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+As Karl Marx wrote at the time of the 1871 Paris Commune, under capitalist |
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+– for killing over 1,000 civilians a year is no accident. |
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+You have an ethical obligation to reject capitalism—it causes massive global exploitation |
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+Daly ‘4 |
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+Glyn Daly, senior lecturer in politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College Northampton, Conversations With Zizek, 2004, pp. 14-16 |
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+For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gord¬ian knot of postmodern protocol |
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+abject Other to that of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. |
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+Capitalism is the root cause of racism and especially sexism by maintaining a system that always puts women and people of color at a disadvantage and reinforces white male superiority |
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+Pharr |
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+ (Suzanne Pharr. “Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism.” Race, Class, and Gender in the United States. 6th edition. http://books.google.com/books?hl=enandlr=andid=9I7ExPk-920Candoi=fndandpg=PA160anddq=capitalism+root+cause+sexism+patriarchyandots=r8Sy4j_EANandsig=G0z-DnqAQK7YeETkia0qO14HQ1Y#v=onepageandqandf=true) |
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+Economics is the great controller in both sexism and racism. If a person can't |
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+of people who, because of gender, they consider inferior to them. |
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+The alt is to reject the aff, instead embracing a methodology of historical materialism. Our alt seeks to negotiate the violence of the 1AC, which stems from an ideology of capital. |
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+Amini et al |
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+ (Babak) 14 “Critical Thinking and Class Analysis: Historical Materialism and Social Theory” Socialism and Democracy 61, Volume 27, No. 1. Babak Amini studies sociology at York University (Toronto). His research interests include the history of socialist thought, history of the labor movement, and workers’ self-management. b.amini86@gmail.com Dan Berger is an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington, Bothell. His most recent book is Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, which won the 2015 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Follow him @authordanberger or www.danberger.org. danberger81@gmail.com Gustavo Buster is a sociologist and member of the editorial board of Sin Permiso.bustergustavo@gmail.com Antoni Domenech is Professor of Philosophy of Social and Moral Sciences in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Barcelona and general editor of the journal Sin Permiso. His publications include articles on Marx, Aristotle, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. antoni.domenech@gmail.com Jean-Numa Ducange is an assistant professor in contemporary history at the University of Normandie (in Rouen) and co-director of the journal Actuel Marx. He is a specialist on the impact of French Revolutionary tradition during the 19th century, especially in the German world. He also works on the history of French, German, and Austrian socialism and Marxism. He is the editor of Jean Jaurès (Livre de Poche, 2014) and Paul Lafargue(Tallandier, 2009). jean-numa.ducange@univ-rouen.fr Teppo Eskelinen is a researcher and adjunct professor in the department of social sciences, University of Eastern Finland. He has worked on issues of political economy and contentious politics. He has also been director of the think tank Left Forum Finland.teppo.eskelinen@uef.fi Eleonora Forenza is a researcher in History of Political Thought at the University Rome Tre. She works on Antonio Gramsci, Women’s History, and Gender Studies. Her publications include ‘Il Gramsci «molecolare» di Giacomo Debenedetti: il problema politico dell’autobiografia’, Historia magistra, 12 (2013), and ‘Femminismo e “forma partito”: chi fa le conclusioni?’, Alternative per il socialismo, 28 (2013). She is a Member of the European Parliament in the GUE/NGL group. eleonora.forenza@europarl.europa.eu Stanislav Holubec is historian and research associate at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) with responsibility for the Challenges of Modernity research area. His interests include 20th-century social history and collective memory. He published monographs on Prague workers in the interwar period and on post-socialist collective memory. sholubec@gmail.com Kate Hudson is a Visiting Research Fellow at London South Bank University, having been Head of Social and Policy Studies from 2000 to 2010. She founded the journalContemporary Politics, was its editor from 1995 to 2008, and continues to serve on its editorial board. She is the author of European Communism since 1989 (Palgrave 2000), and The New European Left (Palgrave 2012). She is also General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. kate.hudson@cnduk.org Conor McCabe is a researcher and educator. He has written extensively on Irish finance and is involved in activist education, working with political, trade union, and community groups in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He is an occasional lecturer with the School of Social Policy, Social Work, and Social Justice in University College Dublin. He is the author of Sins of the Father: The Decisions That Shaped the Irish Economy (History Press 2013). conormccabeis@gmail.com Erik Meijer is a former adviser of Rotterdam local authority. He held national leadership positions in socialist youth and students’ movement (1961-1969), and in the political parties PSP (1968-1991), Green Left (1992-1995) and SP (1999-2010). He was town-councillor of Amsterdam (1975-1978), Member of Parliament for South-Holland province (1982-1995), Member of European Parliament (1999-2009) and Senator (2014-2015), and delegated from the national parliament to the Benelux Parliamentary Assembly.erik.meijer3061@gmail.com Marcello Musto teaches Sociological Theory at York University (Toronto). Among his edited and co-authored volumes are Karl Marx’s ‘Grundrisse’: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (2008); Marx for Today (2012) (both for Routledge); and Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury 2014). His forthcoming monograph (Bloomsbury 2016) is entitled Another Marx: An Essay in Intellectual Biography. marcello.musto@googlemail.com Sanya Osha is a research fellow at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) and Centre for Excellence in Scientometrics and STI Policy at Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. He is on the editorial board of Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy/Revue Africaine de Philosophie. His books include Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa (2005), Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow: Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement (2007), and Postethnophilosophy(2011). He also edited African Feminisms (2006) and co-edited Truth in Politics (2004).babaosha@yahoo.com António Simões do Paço is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, New University of Lisbon. He has published several articles and books on the history of the Portuguese First Republic, the Estado Novo, the Portuguese Communist and Socialist parties, and Portugal’s process of integration into the European Communities.antonio_paco2003@yahoo.co.uk Mihalis Panayiotakis has worked as a webmaster, journalist, and opinion writer inAvgi, the semi-official newspaper of SYRIZA. He has been active in various political movements in Greece. He is an adviser to the General Secretary of Government Coordination, on issues of digital policy and Information Technology. mihalis@gmail.com Joseph G. Ramsey is a scholar, writer, educator, and organizer in the Boston area. A member the SandD editorial board, he is also co-editor of Cultural Logic: an electronic journal of Marxist theory and practice (www.clogic.eserver.org). He writes frequently for http://www.redwedgemagazine.com. He is currently editing a special double-issue of CL (in partnership with Works and Days) on “Scholactivism: Transforming Praxis Inside and Outside the Classroom,” and is researching the radical literary practice of Richard Wright. jgramsey@gmail.com Daniel Raventós is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Barcelona, president of Red Renta Básica (Basic Income Network), and member of the editorial board of the review Sin Permiso. daniel.raventos@gmail.com Igor Štiks is a Research Fellow at the Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship (Bloomsbury 2015). Together with Jo Shaw, he edited the collections Citizenship after Yugoslavia (Routledge 2013), Citizenship Rights(Ashgate 2013), and, with Srećko Horvat, Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics after Yugoslavia (Verso 2015). I.Stiks@ed.ac.uk Raquel Varela is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, New University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the Study Group on Global History of Labor and Social Conflicts. She is honorary fellow of the International Institute for Social History, where she co-coordinates an international project on shipbuilding and ship repair workers around the World. She has published 15 books on labor history and on the Portuguese revolution. raquel_cardeira_varela@yahoo.co.uk Frieder Otto Wolf is an Honorary Professor of philosophy at the Freie Universität (Berlin). He has worked since 1966 on the history of modern political philosophy, as well as on contemporary problems of left and green strategy. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Green European Member of Parliament. He is the author of a number of books and articles on these topics and is editing the German edition of the Collected Works of Louis Althusser. fow@snafu.de //KOHS-AG |
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+In particular, this is so to the extent that Marxists have, in various |
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+ideology. A critical approach in social theory is therefore even more necessary. |
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+Educators must be concerned with resisting capitalism. Thus, the ROB: To vote for the debater who best resists capitalist structures. |
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+McLaren ‘95 |
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+Peter McLaren. Professor of Division of Urban Schooling and forerunner in critical pedagogy. “Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture: Oppositional Politics in a Postmodern Era.” 1995.//KOHS-AG |
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+Critical pedagogy needs to hold a non-reductionist view of the social order: |
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+the micropolitical level of different and contradictory manifestations of oppression (cultural politics). |