Tournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: you | Judge: someone
I affirm Resolved: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike
The sole advantage is capitalism
Right now workers are exploited by the system of capitalism forcing them to work for the accumulation of bourgeois wealth
Gourevitch 19 Alex Gourevitch (associate professor of political science at Brown University and the author of From Slavery To the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century). “A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike.” 7/12/2018. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/right-to-strike-freedom-civil-liberties-oppression
Strikes are key mechanisms for the proletariat to collectively organize and rebel against the capitalist labor structure
Smith 11 Sharon Smith (the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Haymarket, 2006) and Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital (revised and updated, Haymarket, 2015)). “Marxism, Unions, and Class Struggle.” International Socialist Review. 2011. https://isreview.org/issue/78/marxism-unions-and-class-struggle/index.html
Furthermore, strikes are needed for workers to have gain control and have collective action
Gourevitch 19 Alex Gourevitch (associate professor of political science at Brown University and the author of From Slavery To the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century). “A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike.” 7/12/2018. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/right-to-strike-freedom-civil-liberties-oppression
Capitalism is collapsing by 2050, transition wars are inevitable, the impact is extinction
Streeck 16 (Wolfgang, Emeritus Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System, p. 1-15)
The role of the ballot is to evaluate the stimulated consequences of the affirmative policy in resisting capitalism.
1 Challenging class focus must come first – cap has infected institutions and status quo modes of other forms of oppression.
Ollman ‘89 (Bertell, 1989 Professor of Politics at NYU, “In Defense of Marxism,” May, http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/marxism_defense.php)
2 Rejecting capitalism is a side-constraint on any ethical theory.
Morgaridge ‘98, Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, 1998, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html
3 Simulated debates about policy opens new avenues for research and improves problem solving and agenda setting skills.
BARMA ‘15, NAAZNEEN H. Naval Postgraduate School, in the Journal Internal Studies Perspectives, November 6th, 2015 Brent Durbin, Eric Lorber, Rachel Whitlark ““Imagine a World in Which”: Using Scenarios in Political Science” http://www.naazneenbarma.com/uploads/2/9/6/9/29695681/using_scenarios_in_political_science_isp_2015.pdf Accessed 10/4/17 SAO
Also, role of the ballot contestation is irrelevant, since an alternative role of the ballot in the 1NC moots 6 minutes of AC offense and gives the NEG better quality of ground. The role of the ballot is key to critical education since it ensures relevant clash and engagement with the substance of the affirmative. Shifting the role of the ballot only moots the discursive benefits the AFF promotes, and switch side solves back since you could choose what issues you deem important when you affirm.