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+====The affirmative is a machine==== |
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+====Don't ask what it means but ask what it does. The metric for politics is their outcome, whether intentional or not.==== |
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+====The 1AC is purely symbolic – a style over substance – and a simulation over reality – that creates the illusion of resistance while leaving the system intact.==== |
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+====Reject the aff in favor of a politics of substantive material resistance.==== |
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+**Jay 16** (Scott Jay, Legendary analyst, Jan 5 2016, "The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism", http://libcom.org/library/postmodern-left-success-neoliberalism) //YS 2.6.16 |
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+Simulation hits reality SYRIZA played out like a simulation of Marxist theory. The collapse |
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+this is counterproductive to their project. And that is exactly the point. |
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+====Relegating politics to the site of the ~~symbol, metaphor, poem, narrative~~ is a strategical evasion that double turns the 1AC.==== |
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+**Jay 16** (Scott Jay, Legendary analyst, Jan 5 2016, "The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism", http://libcom.org/library/postmodern-left-success-neoliberalism) //YS 2.6.16 |
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+The rise of neoliberalism across the globe for decades, and its continued resilience since |
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+struggles can have no impact simply because it deceptively appears that they don't. |
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+====Reject the aff in favor of a politics of substantive material resistance.==== |
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+**Jay 16** (Scott Jay, Legendary analyst, Jan 5 2016, "The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism", http://libcom.org/library/postmodern-left-success-neoliberalism) //YS 2.6.16 |
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+Simulation hits reality SYRIZA played out like a simulation of Marxist theory. The collapse |
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+this is counterproductive to their project. And that is exactly the point. |
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+====The counter ROTB is to vote for the team with the best theoretical basis for objecting to violence – that lets them weigh the entire aff and centers discussions on necessarily useful knowledge.==== |