Tournament: Tradition | Round: 1 | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Dhruvi Mirani
1~ In setting an end, every agent must recognize freedom as a necessary good, Gewirth 84 ~bracketed for grammar and gendered language~
~Alan Gewirth, () "The Ontological Basis of Natural Law: A Critique and an Alternative" American Journal Of Jurisprudence: Vol. 29: Iss. 1 Article 5, 1984, https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ajj/vol29/iss1/5/, DOA:9-10-2018 WWBW Recut LHP AV~
Let me briefly sketch the main line of argument that leads to this conclusion.
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consistency with the material consideration of the generic features and rights of action.
Wood 07 ~Allen W. Wood, (Stanford University, California) "Kantian Ethics" Cambridge University Press, 2007, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kantian-ethics/769B8CD9FCC74DB6870189AE1645FAC8, DOA:8-12-2020 WWBW~
Kant holds that the most basic act through which people exercise their practical rationality is
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is an end in itself whether the person is morally good or bad.
There are two models of freedom—the non-interference model and the non-domination model. The non-interference model holds that a person’s freedom is violated if they are actually interfered with, while the non-domination model holds that a person’s freedom is violated if someone has the capacity to arbitrarily interfere in their life. Only the non-domination model can ground legitimate state interference and cohere with intuitions about freedom. Pettit 12:
Philip Pettit, "Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective" Current Legal Problems, 2012 RE Recut LHP AV
But while the conception of freedom as non-interference makes it impossible to argue
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, I turn to a consideration of this challenge in the final section.
Thus, the standard is consistency with freedom as non-domination, defined as establishing institutional constraints that eliminate the capacity for arbitrary interference.
Pettit P. Freedom in the market. Politics, Philosophy and Economics. 2006;5(2):131-149. doi:10.1177/1470594X06064218 LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
In order to understand the republican conception of social freedom, we need to do
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, but under the republican approach it will not take such freedom away.
PETTIT, PHILIP. "THE DOMINATION COMPLAINT." Nomos, vol. 46, 2005, pp. 87–117. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24220143. Accessed 19 Aug. 2020.
The primary reason why the complaint about being dominated is of the first significance is
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that cower at their masters' feet or snuggle that up their mistress’s skirt.
1~ Structural Domination – a labor market structurally requires exploitation and domination – workers need an alternative, Gourevitch 16:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
The commodification of labor I: structural domination and exploitation So long as we view
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refuse to believe that they can overcome their exploitation through purely individual efforts.
2~ Workplace Domination – authority within the workplace arbitrarily resides in the hands of employers, which alienates and dominates workers, Gourevitch 16:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
The commodification of labor 2: contracts and government of the workplace Strikes are ways
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labor legislation) or that she owes obligations of deference to the employer.
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
"Is it peace or war:"1 What is a right to strike?
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jobs from which they have withdrawn performance belong to them, they maintain.
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
This is standard liberal advice on how to solve the problem. Workers are free
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commodification of ‘labor-power’ subjects workers to overlapping forms of unfreedom.
1~ Power – it reverses power relationships and challenges the structure of economic control itself – that alleviates domination, Gourevitch 16:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
Quitting the work not the job We now have a way of explaining the right
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is why they may not take jobs that striking workers refuse to perform.
2~ Decommodification – strikes challenge the notion of labor as a mere commodity – that empowers workers and resists arbitrary managerial authority, Gourevitch 16:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
As we have seen, workers resist these accounts on the grounds that their capacity
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Burns 2011, 47-55; Atleson 1983, 67-96).
Counterplans can’t solve – they’re too slow, don’t empower workers, and fail to decommodify labor, Gourevitch 16:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
The worker’s interest in not being subject to continuously arbitrary authority is expansive. The
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labor contract they have alienated rights of control over their minds and bodies.
The aff aligns itself with historical labor movements that challenged industrial capitalism and wage-slavery – that opens up the potentiality for cooperative control over the means of production, Gourevitch 6:
Gourevitch, Alex. "Labor Republicanism and the Transformation of Work." Political Theory, vol. 41, no. 4, 2013, pp. 591–617. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23484596. Accessed 6 July 2021. LHP AV
The Labor Republicans Labor republicanism developed out of farmers' and urban artisans' reaction to the
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conceptual possibilities for thinking about work and economy that these labor republicans inspire.
The role of the ballot is to cultivate civic republican virtues – this empowers students while fostering contestation, democratic pluralism, and mutual recognition – optimist humanism is necessary within education. Theory is coherent under the role of the ballot and operates higher than substance. Substantive constraints are debatable via interpretations of the aff framework, Snir and Eylon 16:
Snir I, Eylon Y. Pedagogy of non-domination: Neo-republican political theory and critical education. Policy Futures in Education. May 26, 2016;14(6):759-774. doi:10.1177/1478210316650603 LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
Introduction In the last couple of decades, political philosophy has witnessed a revival of
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how neo-republican theory can help adjust critical pedagogy to contemporary realities.