Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood ST | Judge: Adam Torson
The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.
Mata 19- only innovate to protect neoliberalism and because it’s efficent
Christophers 16 ~Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, "The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law," 2016, Harvard University Press, pp. 8-15, EA~
The aforementioned argument that capitalism has historically migrated from a state of competitiveness to a
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the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance.
Martin Hart-Landsberg, 4-1-2006, "Monthly Review," Monthly Review, https://monthlyreview.org/2006/04/01/neoliberalism-myths-and-reality/ (LHS IB)
Agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade
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trade. In fact, this is an easier task than generally assumed.
The Neoliberalism approach the aff takes in by restricting IP’s for competition, the invisible hand, and by restricting IP’s is a myth- further entrenches us in neoliberalism and causes meaningless death and drives less innovation and distribution.
At- sach 14- that only neolib solves
AT- Cooper 06- only privatization solves
Ognian Kassabov, 1-20-2021, "What the vaccine debacle tells
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Russia’s Gamaleya Institute and China’s Sinopharm, were successful in developing effective vaccines.
Neolib capitalism is the greatest impact—root cause of Covid— it’s the greatest existential threat and the biggest affront to human rights and causes catastrophic healthcare crises, climate change, structural racism, and value to life deprivation. Litany of recent studies prove that transition is possible and would save humanity, but requires urgent divestment from current modes of politics
Ahmed 20 (Nafeez Ahmed — Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University's Faculty of Science and Technology + M.A. in contemporary war and peace studies + DPhil (April 2009) in international relations from the School of Global Studies @ Sussex University, "Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists", https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-24/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/, 24 June 2020, EmmieeM)
The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it
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quite literally, destroying the foundations for human survival over the coming decades.
Neolib is the root cause of Covid and all pandemics- multiple warrants- the aff is a hopeless attempt and an example of disaster neolib to solve through restricting IP’s- when in reality they can’t since they’re dependent on free markets sacrifices which proliferates the virus
Miloš ŠUmonja, 21- June"Neoliberalism is not dead – On political implications of Covid-19," PubMed Central (PMC), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7770495/ (LHS IB)
The neoliberal pandemic – the causes of crisis
From the viewpoint suggested above,
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disproportionately women and minority workers facing permanent job loss (Data Speaks 2020).
The alt is to decentralize global chains, the free markets and neoliberalism- we support Democratisation of capitalism through the Keynesian state
Miloš ŠUmonja, 21- June"Neoliberalism is not dead – On political implications of Covid-19," PubMed Central (PMC), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7770495/ (LHS IB))
Nationalist states and neoliberal solutions
Surprisingly, after all the historical experiences from the
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of who is paying for the crisis is already being answered in practice.
Institutions are a critical part of implementation, solvency, and ideology – the aff should be forced to think about that before writing a plan
Giroux 12 6/19/12 ~Henry, Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, "Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: The Education Deficit and the New Authoritarianism" June 6, 2012 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9865-beyond-the-politics-of-the-big-lie-the-education-deficit-and-the-new-authoritarianism~~
While a change in consciousness does not guarantee a change in either one's politics or
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making education central to organized politics and the quest for a radical democracy.