Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake LD | Judge: Peyton Reeves
The telos of the 1ac's politics is the strike – that naturalizes capital's control and is parasitic on political organizing.
Eidlin 20 Barry Eidlin (assistant professor of sociology at McGill University and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada), 1-6-2020, "Why Unions Are Good – But Not Good Enough," Jacobin, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/marxism-trade-unions-socialism-revolutionary-organizing
Labor unions have long occupied a paradoxical position within Marxist theory. They are an
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formation of "a political organization of the working class as a whole."
Recognizing a right to strike reduces revolutionary potential and fractures class organizing – turns the perm.
Crépon 19 Mark Crépon (French philosopher), translated by Micol Bez "The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's 'Toward the Critique of Violence,'" Critical Times, 2:2, August 2019, DOI 10.1215/26410478-7708331
If we wish to understand how the question of the right to strike arises for
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and to take responsibility for it that the left regularly loses workers' support.
Capitalism's successes necessitate human extinction and destroy the value to life – it's try or die for alternative organizing
Duzgun 20 Eren Duzgun (teaches Historical Sociology and International Relations at Leiden University, Netherlands), 4-5-2020, "Capitalism, Coronavirus and the Road to Extinction," Socialist Project, https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-and-road-to-extinction/
Covid-19, by contrast, has begun its journey and taken its biggest
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market. The beast is not tameable; it needs to be killed.
Escalante 18 Alyson Escalante (Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist), 8-24-2018, "Against Electoralism, For Dual Power!," Forge News, https://theforgenews.org/2018/08/24/against-electoralism-for-dual-power/
If we, as socialists, truly fight for a classless world, we must
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to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen.
Ball 17 Stephen J. Ball (Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education at the University College London, Institute of Education. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; and Society of Educational Studies, and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Phi; he has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland), and Leicester. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy), 2017, "Laboring to Relate: Neoliberalism, Embodied Policy, and Network Dynamics," Peabody Journal of Education, 92:1, 29-41, DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2016.1264802, this part is pgs. 37-39
Within Ramya Venkataraman's writing and presentations, there is the deployment and reiteration of a
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mobilities are forged within the processes of reform and the work of networks.