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+Simply constructing a laundry list of atrocities of surveillance - they misidentify the enemy. Herod 01 |
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+Herod, Graduate of Columbia University, 2001, James, October 2001, “A Stake, Not a Mistake: On Not Seeing the Enemy”, http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=paperandid=9andprint=yandPHPSESSID=4387a9147ad42723ea101944dd538914, 07-06-14, TCT |
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+The widespread belief that the US government has good intentions, a belief held onto |
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+It thus prevents us from devising a successful strategy for defeating this enemy. |
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+The AFF’s assumption of a right to free speech assumes an overly idealistic notion of society that ignores economic barriers and is a product of the neoliberal myth that individuality should be protected at all costs. Tillett-Saks 13 |
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+Tillett-Saks 13 Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths/ //LADI |
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+Yet there are many critics of the protestors who do not claim Ray Kelly’s policies |
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+on: The oppressors or the protestors. The status quo or progress. |
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+Neoliberalism is the root cause of nearly all global problems – environment, poverty, war, and extinction. Farbod 15 |
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+ ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) |
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+Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises |
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+enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. |
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+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 |
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+R.C. Smith April 24, 2014 “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/ |
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+One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have |
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+governing system, which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity |
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+The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of a historic materialist analysis. This debate is about starting points. If their history is incorrect, then that warrants a rejection, as the ballot asks you who did the better debating, and their analysis incorrectly assumes the capitalist guise of free speech. |
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+Investigation of the historical roots of capitalism is a prerequisite to combating oppressive structures – prerequisite to the 1AC’s question of surveillance. Mészáros 11 |
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+ (István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has produced. His work stands alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. He is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. Monthly Review, Volume 63, Issue 01 (May) 2011, “The Dialectic of Structure and History: An Introduction”, http://monthlyreview.org/2011/05/01/the-dialectic-of-structure-and-history-an-introduction/ , ) |
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+The investigation of the dialectical relationship between structure and history is essential for a proper |
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+structural framework of material and cultural reproduction in its hierarchical class articulation standing. |