Tournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
Their position focused on individualism and identity politics is a tool used by the modern “left” and the bourgeois to force our submission to the capitalist system and divert our attention from our labor and class
Tumino 01 (Stephen Tumino, professor at Pratt Institute), “Orthodox Marxism and the Contemporary”, 2001, http://redcritique.org/spring2001/orthodox_marxism.htm ZS
"Globalization" has sharpened the economic contradictions and devastating inequalities of wage-labor
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be measured by its desperate embracing of Spinoza as an exemplary "materialist"!
The impact is that capitalism renders life meaningless because it only cares about profit in order to reproduce itself. Only class consciousness and dialectic analysis can explain the root cause of all other oppression.
Schumacher 13 (Maarten Schumacher) “The Meaningless of life in Capitalism,” 2013, https://maartenschumacher.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/the-meaninglessness-of-life-in-capitalism ZS
“I’ve talked a few times about the ‘meaninglessness of life’, but what
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a viable alternative to capitalism be more meaningful than the participation in it?”
The alt is intersectional, dialectic class conscious revolt. Only communal resistance with a will towards a common goal will exhaust the capitalist system that works by placating individuals with self expression and celebration of difference
Dean 16 (Jodi Dean, professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges) “Crowds and Party,” 2016, http://library.lol/main/94894B0740A38FE166F5E83819C8C049 ZS
“In communicative capitalism, individual acts of resistance and, subversion,
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to talk about the party should not talk about political transformation.
The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best engages in acts of comradery. Only collective action can solve for the harms of capitalism and resolve the Left
Dean 16 (Jodi Dean, professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges) “Crowds and Party,” 2016, http://library.lol/main/94894B0740A38FE166F5E83819C8C049 ZS
“Crowds and Party comes out of this moment of collective de-subjectivation
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modes of association in the abstract. Communists must do this as well.”