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+Revolution is coming now – the new age of technology means workers are collectivizing and paving the way for international labor movements. |
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+Zang 16 (Zang, Xiaowei, Associate Professor in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. "Understanding Chinese Society." Routledge (2016): 142-44. Print.) |
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+Social pressures on |
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+a significant limiting factor. |
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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 “What do we mean by “Energy Policy”? Life, Capitalism, and the Broader Field of Energy Politics” State of Nature May 4th 2013 http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=7138 |
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+In the 1970s |
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+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 kills its 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 |
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+Socialists can bring |
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+emancipated working class. |
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+Describing what the government should do ignores personal responsibility and assumes a false neutrality – only the alternative can break the cycle of demands. |
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+Herod 1 (James, “A Stake, Not a Mistake: On Not Seeing the Enemy”, October, 2001, http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=paperandid=9andprint=yandPHPSESSID=4387a9147ad42723ea101944dd538914) |
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+Let's take another |
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+to see another way. |
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+Capitalism results in an infinite death drive that makes extinction and Otherization inevitable. |
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+Santos 3 (Boaventura de Sousa, director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, EUROZINE, COLLECTIVE SUICIDE OR GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW, http://www.eurozine.com/article/2003-03-26-santos-en.html) *Note this card had been modified for suicide metaphors |
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+According to Franz |
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+countries for four years. |
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+The alternative is to embrace radical militant intellectuality that challenges the intellectual hegemony of capitalism – constructing new knowledge practices in academic forums like debate is a prerequisite to emancipatory social change. |
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+Sotiris 13 Panagiotis Sotiris, Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean, 2013 (“Hegemony and mass critical intellectuality,” International Socialism: A Quarterly Journal of Socialist Theory, Issue 137, January 9th, Available Online at http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=871andissue=137, Accessed 01-23-2013) |
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+All these examples |
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+construction of an alternative. |