Tournament: UK Season Opener | Round: Semis | Opponent: Little Rock Central XJ | Judge: Anderson, Fain, Slencsak
Claiming “debate space” as a site for organic, horizontalist politics sells out radical change to the private sphere of individual performance. It particularizes the struggle and makes transformation impossible
Marcus 12 – associate book editor at Dissent Magazine (Fall, David, “The Horizontalists”, http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-horizontalists)
There is a much-recycled
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age of ever more stratification, we must resist.
Capitalism causes resource wars, economic collapses, population crises, ecological degradation, kills value to life, and magnifies all secondary antagonisms
Parr ’13 Adrian Parr, The Wrath of Capital, 2013, p. 145-147
A quick snapshot of
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it may all be over.
The alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only the vertical dual power organizing can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct unproductive tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation.
Escalante 18
(Alyson Escalante is a Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist. “PARTY ORGANIZING IN THE 21ST CENTURY” September 21st, 2018 https://theforgenews.org/2018/09/21/party-organizing-in-the-21st-century/ rvs)
I would argue that
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growing movement can succeed.
This debate is a question of the speed, scope, and scale of revolutionary strategy. Only dual power organizing builds institutions that meet the material needs of community, building a revolutionary base in the face of compounding crises of climate change, imperialism, and fascism.
Escalante, 19 Alyson, Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist, "Communism and Climate Change: A Dual Power Approach," Failing That, Invent, https://failingthatinvent.home.blog/2019/02/15/communism-and-climate-change-a-dual-power-approach///AD
I have previously argued that
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engage in revolutionary struggle.