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+====First is the link. The police serve to systematically uphold capitalism – they can't be reformed.==== |
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+Mitrani, Sam. Associate Professor of History at the College of DuPage, holds Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. January 16, 2015. "The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People, Not 'Serve and Protect'" In These Times. http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17505/police_and_poor_people |
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+In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men |
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+trumped-up charges in order to feed them into convict labor systems. |
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+===Impact=== |
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+====Turns case – police reforms only create a solvency ruse that teaches us to accept capitalism and ignore the root cause.==== |
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+Wainwright, Michael. Socialist critical of the police. March 19, 2006. "The Role of the Police" Marxism and the State: An Exchange. http://www.socialistalternative.org/marxism-and-the-state/role-police/ |
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+"If the working class is to preserve the economic gains and the democratic rights |
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+illusion that an elected parliament can control the executive of the capitalist state? |
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+====Capitalism is the root cause of devaluation of people and structural violence.==== |
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+Kovel, Joel. Professor of Social Studies at Bard. 2007. "Capital and the domination of nature" from "The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?" |
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+The precondition of an ecologically rational attitude toward nature is the recognition that nature far |
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+; for global capital, the losses are regrettable necessities or collateral damage. |
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+===Alt=== |
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+====The alt is to shift our mindset away from capitalism by rejecting it in all instances – this includes the 1AC.==== |
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+Holloway, John. Ph.D Political Science-University of Edinburgh. April 5, 2005. "Can we change the world without taking power?" International Socialism. http://isj.org.uk/can-we-change-the-world-without-taking-power/ |
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+On the question of fissures. We often feel helpless because capitalism weighs so heavily |
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+? Why should we accept the template of the concept of the state? |
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+===Role of the Ballot=== |
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+====The role of the judge is to reject harmful societal norms. Thus, the role of the ballot is to reject capitalism in every instance.==== |
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+Post, Charlie. Sociology teacher in New York City is active in rank and file organizing in the American Federation of Teachers and is a member of Solidarity. "A Critical Look at Empire" Solidarity. https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1195 |
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+In this world, all those who are subject to the vicissitudes of capitalist production |
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+Empire can be attacked from any point.' (p. 59) |