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+Capitalism is driving racism, militarization, and environmental collapse that will cause extinction – all other impacts take a back seat. |
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+Dean 15 (Jodi, professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, “Red, Black, and Green,” Rethinking Marxism, 27:3, July 16, Taylor and Francis) |
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+The absence of a powerful Left enables the political Right (in part by shifting |
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+AND |
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+relate to ourselves as comrades, as solidary members of a fighting collective. |
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+Legal systems protect and guard capitalism – military and police domination are utilized in every way possible to put down nonviolent challenges to the capitalist system |
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+Martin 01 (Brian, professor at the University of Wollongong, 2001, “Nonviolence versus capitalism”, http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/01nvc/nvc03.html) |
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+From the point of view of nonviolence, a crucial feature of capitalism is its |
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+AND |
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+has done more to promote capitalism in Vietnam than decades of anticommunist warfare. |
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+The alternative is for the judge to vote negative to participate in an unflinching withdrawal of faith from the capitalist system. |
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+Johnston 07 (Johnston, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHER, 2007, ADRIAN, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ZIZEK STUDIES, 1.0, PGS. 23 – 24, http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/8/24) |
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+Perhaps the absence of a detailed practical roadmap in Zizek's political writings isn't a major |
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+AND |
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+comforting fiction ("Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism."). |
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+Success of our resistance means subordination of all other goals and the incorporation of all other agendas. This debate round should be considered a referendum on the future – cast your ballot in favor of revolutionary politics and the withering away of capitalism and its power structures. |
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+Badiou 10 (Badiou, former Chair of Philosophy at École normale supérieure, 2010, The Idea of Communism pp. 245-260) |
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+So we can now return to our subject, the communist Idea. If, |
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+AND |
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+third era of this Idea's existence. We can, so we must. |
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+We have an a-priori ethical obligation to reject capitalism. There may be some things worse than death, but you will never know because capitalism makes its victims anonymous. |
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+Zizek and Daly 4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16) Black Lavender |
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+For Zizek it is imperative |
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+AND |
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+‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. |
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+As an intellectual, your rejection of capitalism has emancipatory results - relentless criticism allows |
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+of the masses of people. There is no greater responsibility for intellectuals. |