Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot MB | Judge: Mildy Briones
Democracy and Capitalism are fatally intertwined; Capitalism continues to thrive at the expense of democratic ideas. Left unchecked, capitalism will continue to rupture democracies globally; corporate elites, lack of free and fair elections, and runaway climate change all point to democracies dying at the hands of Capitalism. Reich, 9
Robert B. Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. This article is adapted from his book, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007). “How Capitalism Is Killing Democracy,” 12 October 2009, https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/12/how-capitalism-is-killing-democracy/ Cgilbert
It was supposed to be a match made in heaven. Capitalism and democracy…
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… the challenge for citizens is to stop these economic entities from being the authors of the rules by which we live.
It’s in the classroom, it drives the rapid acceleration of climate change, and is the gasoline that is poured on the culture war fire that envelops micro-political discussions. Democracy and capitalism are intertwined. So I stand resolved that civil disobedience in a democracy is morally justified as a response to unrestrained Capitalism. Today’s value is human life OVER profits.
The aim to satisfy capitalism's urge for limitless growth - causes exploitation, and destroys value to life while trying to stave off the inevitable collapse. Clark, 12
(Richard, OpEd News, 8/28/12, republished by WPF 4/3/14, " How and Why Is Global Corporate Capitalism Obsolete?", http://wpfdc.org/blog/economics/19049-how-and-why-is-global-corporate-capitalism-obsolete)
What lies at the heart of this insanity? It is this: Commanding an implacable and …
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… natural environment remain stronger than the desire to accumulate wealth.¶
Discussions of class struggles must come first – any other issue can’t address root cause of violence. Dickens and Ormrod, 7
*Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex AND Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton
(Peter and James, Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe pg 180-181, dml)
Marxist theories are generally found wanting in the era of the new social …
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… economic growth and scientific rationality (see also, for example, Beck 1992).
Capitalism’s exploitation of labor and resources will inevitably collapse modern civilization—radical redistribution of resources is necessary to avert extinction. Ahmed, 14
Nafeez Ahmed. Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development. March 14 2014. “NASA-funded study: industrial civilization headed for ‘irreversible collapse’? The Guardian.
A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial …
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… if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion."
Capitalism is around us every day. It permeates politics, over codes what we learn in the classroom and is simultaneously oppressing us at every turn. Thus we believe it’s best to be civilly disobedient in the fact of economic oppression.
Thus, we endorse civil disobedience through the affirmation of the Communist Hypothesis. Every ethical decision – up to the ballot itself – should be infused with all of the significance of humanity’s destiny. The question regarding the aff is “does it confirm or contradict the communist hypothesis.” If we win the uniqueness question, you should reject alternatives because they reduce life to a barbaric ratrace and stand opposed to universal emancipation. Badiou, 8
Alain, former Chair of Philosophy at École normale supérieure, 2008. The Meaning of Sarkozy, pp. 97-103
I would like to situate the Sarkozy episode, which is not an impressive page …
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…. moment at which we find ourselves in the history of this hypothesis.
Activism gets coopted by institutions—it gets used as a means of appeasing counter-hegemonic politics while entrenching hierarchies—institutional avenues are doomed to lead to broader change; that makes the aff a pre requisite to political change. Baldry et al 15
Eileen Baldry is Professor of Criminology, School of Social Sciences, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Dr. Bree Carlton is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social and Political Inquiry at Monash University. Chris Cunneen is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of NSW. He also holds a conjoint position at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. His most recent book (with Baldry et al.) is Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration (Ashgate, 2013). Baldry, Eileen, et al. “Abolitionism and the Paradox of Penal Reform in Australia: Indigenous Women, Colonial Patriarchy, and Co-Option.” Social Justice, vol. 41, no. 3 (137), Social Justice/Global Options, 2015, pp. 168–89. JSTOR.Anton
Co-option, Neutralization, and Absorption Social movement literature has long recognized the …
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… neither a complete absorption of the new, nor a radical replacement of the old.