Tournament: New Orleans | Round: 1 | Opponent: TBA | Judge: TBA
Capitalism makes extinction inevitable through escalating ecological catastrophes and creates violence across racial and gendered lines – confronting it requires a reclamation of the state, not a rejection of it
Parr 15 (Adrian Parr – PhD in Philosophy @ Monash University, professor at the Institute of Critical Philosophy, UNESCO Co-Chair of Water Access and Sustainability. “The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics – Reflections,” June 2015, Geoforum, Volume 62, Pages 70-72)
In retrospect I wonder if I should have opened The Wrath of Capital with my
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the neoliberal inscription of all spaces for all times remain closed to critique.

The alt is to adopt a historical materialist approach that acknowledges that racial and gender difference is rooted in the capitalist system of exploitation.
Scatamburlo-D’Annibale and McLauren 03, V. and Peter McLaren, “The Strategic Centrality of Class in the Politics of ‘Race’ and ‘Difference’”, UCLA, 2003, http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/mclaren/mclaren20and20valerie.pdf VM
A historical materialist approach adopts the imperative that categories of difference are social/political
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freedom and pluralist, liberal democracy" (1992, p. 96).

The roll of the ballot is to endorse the debater who best structurally and methodologically ends capitalism.

We have an apriori ethical obligation to end capitalism- controls internal link to all oppressions
Zizek and Daly 04 (Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, pg 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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the abject Other to that of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.