Tournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood Kid | Judge: Martin Sigalow
Dependence upon the state to guarantee intrinsic freedoms such as free speech cedes power to the elites and enables oppression. The state is capitalism’s enforcer – it was built to serve capitalist ruling class interest normalize its oppression.
Harman 06
Chris, editor of International Socialism Journal and, before that, of Socialist Worker, and a leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party, September 26th, 2006, “The state and capitalism today”, http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=234
The state may AND are capitalist forces.
The constitution is merely a means of reenforcing capitalist power relations.
Avakian ‘10
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA Copyright © 2010 by RCP Publications. All rights reserved.
All law has AND its underlying dynamics.
Constitutional rights have been reshaped to serve capitalist interests.
Wood; Ellen Meiksins Wood. Solidarity; Capitalism and Social Rights. May/June 2009. https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2150
I’m also pretty AND yes, social work.
Modern conceptions of democracy disguise class oppression- it isn’t control by the people but bourgeois representatives
Wood 98 (Ellen Meiksins Wood, taught political science at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Canada, “The Retreat from Class A New 'True' Socialism” pgs. 66-68)
Their argument requires AND of social production.
“Liberty” under capitalism is a pacifying illusion – our society’s superficial peace is sustained by capitalist oppression. Our rights only exist when the elites want them to.
Wood ‘09
Ellen Meiksins Wood. Solidarity; Capitalism and Social Rights. May/June 2009. https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2150
American Marxist historian and scholar. Wood received a B.A. in Slavic languages from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and subsequently entered the graduate program in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which she received her PhD in 1970. From 1967 to 1996, she taught political science at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I’m also pretty AND yes, social work.
Class focus must come first – it is the root cause of all oppression.
Kovel 07
Joel Kovel. Prof. of Social Studies @ Bard, 2007. “The Enemy of Nature”, p. 140.
If, however, we ask the question of efficacy, that is, which split sets the others into motion AND we discuss in the next section.
We have an obligation to embrace critical pedagogy.
McLaren et al ‘04
Peter McLaren is a Professor and Gregory Martin and Nathalia Jaramillo are doctoral students, all in the Division of Urban Schooling of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies @ UCLA. Ramin Farahmandpur is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies @ Portland State University “Teaching in and against the Empire: Critical Pedagogy as Revolutionary Praxis” Teacher Education Quarterly 2004 - Volume 31, Number 1.
In creating the conditions for social change AND Because of this, we will settle for nothing less.
Voting negative refuses the affirmative in favor of Historical Materialist Pedagogy. Inequality is sutured by the unequal circulation of capital. Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary moment. Only starting from the structural antagonisms produced by wage labor can lead to transformative politics.
Ebert ‘9 Teresa, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Albany, THE TASK OF CULTURAL CRITIQUE, pp. 92-95
Unlike these rewritings AND Instead, the pedagogy of critique is a worldly teaching of the worldly.
