Tournament: Yale | Round: 6 | Opponent: Montville NP | Judge:
Covid slowed down the growth and the revolution is coming now! There can be no abolition of capitalism without internal contradiction, not external shock. Covid has exposed the contradiction to the mass- ensuring the revolution will happen.
*M.I. Asma, 20* (M.I. Asma is an anonymous collective of writers, thinkers, and organizers in the imperialist metropoles, writing in order to use the COVID 19 pandemic as an occasion to think capitalism and communist alternatives. "Chapter Thirteen," On Necrocapitalism, https://necrocapitalism.wordpress.com)
But we can imagine now, when the riots die down and are literally pacified
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would have a resemblance to communism. (HARNEY AND MOTEN, 42)
*Peter Drahos, 4-11-2019, "- A Philosophy of Intellectual Property," No Publication, http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n1902/html/ch05.xhtml?referer=andamp;page=9*
The argument we have put can be stated in the following propositions. The existence
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is itself symbolic of the fact that scientific labour has become alienated labour.
Sujithxavier, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/
These events – the corporate capture of the global pharmaceutical IP regime, state complicity
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countries in the global south, but also produces asymmetries that perpetuate inequalities.
*Dean and Heron, 20 (Jodi, communist party organizer and Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY; Kai Heron editor at ROAR Magazine and a casualized academic with research interests in political theory, ecology, psychoanalysis, and political economy. "Revolution or Ruin," E-Flux, Journal ~#110 - June 2020, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335242/revolution-or-ruin/)* *emphasis original accessed:2021/1/3
For Riofrancos, a politics of pure negation is unhelpful because it mistakes the GND
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the need to develop a fighting organization with the capacity to do so.
*Marques; 2020*
*Famine*
*Climate change*
*Deforestation*
*Overfishing*
*Biodiversity loss/species extinction*
*Ocean acidification*
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further inflame nationalist instincts, making our global challenges even harder to solve.