Tournament: Coppell | Round: 1 | Opponent: Byron Nelson SS | Judge: Acevedo, Manuel
The value is morality and the value criterion is mitigating structural harms of capitalism
Winter and Leighton 99 |Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|~Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice~ "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5 ghsVA
Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about
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local cultures, will be our most surefooted path to building lasting peace.
Zizek and Daly 2004(Slavoj, PhD in Philosophy @ the University of Ljubljana, Senior Research in Sociology @ the University of Ljubljana, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis @ the European Graduate School, has been a visiting professor @ University of Chicago, Columbia University, Princeton, University of London, and NYU, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, and Glyn, has been a Professor @ Essex University and Manchester University, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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abject Other to that of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.
Jens Temmen, 7-24, 21, WHY BILLIONAIRES IN SPACE ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE, https://blog.degruyter.com/today-space-is-virgin-territory-why-billionaires-in-space-are-not-going-to-make-the-world-a-better-place/
But what's the harm, one might ask, in rehashing these concepts in context
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for humanity, changing our perspectives on life on Earth must come first.
Private space exploitation is neoliberal in nature and requires the state to support it – props up capitalism on Earth and facilitates it's expansion in space
Sam Wolfe, March 26, 2020, Asteroid Mining and Capitalism in Space, https://www.samwoolfe.com/2020/03/asteroid-mining-space-capitalism.html
Shammas and Holen argue that space will become a 'spatial fix', a concept
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rather "a specific set of capitalist entrepreneurs" (Shammas and Holen).
Capitalism has put us on a trajectory for a laundry list of existential threats to human existence – climate change, poverty, extreme inequality, racialization, and disease are coming now. Collective organizing is necessary to avoid extinction.
Foster 19 (John Foster, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Ph.D. in Political Science at York University, editor and author of numerous books and articles about economics, environment, and capitalism, "Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?" 2/1/2019, https://monthlyreview.org/2019/02/01/capitalism-has-failed-what-next/) GL
Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is
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rift in the social and environmental conditions governing human life on earth.43
The solvency is Dual Powers – building independent socialist spaces and institutions that operate in parallel to the capitalist state in sites like debate in order to redeploy what it means to be political
Escalante 19 (Alyson Escalante. Marxist-Leninist. " Communism and Climate Change: A Dual Power Approach" https://regenerationmag.org/communism-and-climate-change-a-dual-power-approach/) GL
Much has been written over the last few years about a dual power approach to
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question we now face is: how are we going to save ourselves?