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+**====Free speech is never free—the aff will never be able to come to terms with the fact that money equals power more than words do—their focus on speech only serves to obscure analysis from neolib's operation within society====** |
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+**Fiss 85**, Owen M. "Free speech and social structure." Iowa L. Rev. 71 (1985): 1405. SM |
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+My concerns first arose in the seventies-one of the few periods when America |
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+larger: at a powerfully entrenched, but finally inadequate body of doctrine. |
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+====The focus on discourse as controlling our articulation of identity replaces the concept of exploitation with domination-it hides the fact that power is always produced by material forces not discourse. Even if their project is successful it cannot result in material change because it does not challenge current models of production.==== |
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+**Zavarzadeh in 95** ~~Mas'ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, post-ality: Marxism and postmodernism, post-ality the (dis)simulations of cybercapitalism |
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+These representations disseminate the view that the post-al moment is the moment of |
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+forces that historically produce power—the ownership of the means of production. |
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+====Neoliberalism structures academic freedom in the status quo. It sets limits on what is acceptable behavior to quell dissent and any facult truly radical enough to challenge corporate hegemony are tossed out before they can pose a real threat. ==== |
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+**Chatterjee and Maira 14** |
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+Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. "The Imperial University: race, war, and the nation-state." The imperial university: Academic repression and scholarly dissent (2014): 1-50. |
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+Our geopolitical positions—of our immediate workplaces as well as trans- national work |
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+of labor and survival within the U.S. university system.11 |
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+====We have reached a tipping point – neoliberalism is no longer able to control its spiral into disaster. Massive structural violence and extinction are inevitable without a fundamental rethinking of the current system. ==== |
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+**Farbod 15** ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) //LADI |
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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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+====Under your framework obligation is to assume responsibility for our actions. Capitalism render's its victims anonymous and ensures that the aff's personal focus never come to terms with the billions of degraded life choices globally ==== |
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+Slavoj **Zizek and **Glyn **Daly**, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, **2004**, Conversations With Zizek, p. 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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+====The alternative is to embrace a Marxist methodology by rejecting the affirmative's ideological mystification of capitalism's material base. Only by rejecting this ideology can we lay bare the structural causes of oppression and spark the revolutionary praxis necessary to build a classless society==== |
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+**Tumino 2001** (Stephen, prof. of English at Pitt, "What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever Before," The Red Critique 1, http://www.redcritique.org/spring2001/whatisorthodoxmarxism.htm) |
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+The "original" ideas of Marxism are inseparable from their effect as "demystification |
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+Communist Party, Selected Works, 45) to end social inequality forever. |
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+====Regardless of alternative solvency, you have an ethical obligation to attempt to transcend capitalism— utopian thinking is key to the value of life==== |
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+**Marsh 95** |
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+(James L., Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, Critique, Action, and Liberation p. 331-336 GAL) |
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+However, such a conception of reason is highly questionable. Reason, as I |
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+a repressive status quo whose interest lies in not having the veil pierced. |
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+====The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater whose ethical orientation best catalyzes organization against Capital==== |
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+====The ballot represents a choice between competing visions of social change – elevating the aff above the individual endorsement of the aff debater is false. The debate round represents competing strategies for social change: the question is not who does the alt or plan, but of a world without capitalism vs. the affirmative. Agency questions are irrelevant—we don't have to win the alternative spills over, just that rejection in this round is comparatively better than the aff—any other evaluation makes no sense because the judge isn't in a position to do the aff either. Critiquing assumptions is the best way to leverage change. ==== |
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+Reinsborough, 03 (Organizer, Rainforest Action Network and Wake Up America Campaign) 03 (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, August 2003, Volume 1, Issue 2, Patrick). |
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+Direct action— actions that either symbolically or directly shift power relations— is an |
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+find the rumors that start revolutions and ask the questions that topple empires. |