Tournament: Jack Howe Memorial Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: ModernBrain AY | Judge: Srinidhi Yerraguntala
Their brand of feminism reinforces neoliberal individualism reifying those structures which the aff seeks to attack.
Fraser, PhD, 13
(Nancy, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/feminism-capitalist-handmaiden-neoliberal, 10-14, )
As a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was
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with neoliberalism and reclaim our three "contributions" for our own ends.
The affs single issue social movement collapses on itself and becomes just another site of resistance stuck in the capitalist cycle, only unifying the class behind the proletariat solves.
Zizek 2 ~Slavoj Zizek, "Revolution at the Gates," pg 296-302, 2002~/ lm
So the struggle ahead has no guaranteed outcome – it will confront us with an unprecedented need to act, since it will concern not only a new mode of production, but a radical rupture in what it means to be a human being.'85 Today, we can already discern the signs of a kind of general unease – recall the series of protests usually listed under the name "Seattle". The ten-year honeymoon of triumphant global capitalism is over; the long-overdue "seven-year itch" is here – witness the panicky reactions of the mass media, which, from Time magazine to CNN, started all of a sudden to warn us about the Marxists manipulating the crowd of "honest" protesters. The problem now is the strictly Leninist one: how do we actualize the media's accusations? How do we invent the organizational structure which will confer on this unrest the form of the universal political demand? Otherwise, the momentum will be lost, and all that will remain will be marginal disturbances, perhaps organized like a new Greenpeace, with a certain efficiency, but also strictly limited goals, marketing strategy, and so on. In short, without the form of the Party, the movement remains caught in the vicious cycle of "resistance", one of the big catchwords of "postmodern" politics, which likes to oppose "good" resistance to power to a "bad" revolutionary takeover of power – the last thing we want is the domestication of anti-globalization into just another "site of resistance" against capitalism.
As a result, the key "Leninist" lesson today is: politics without
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counterpart of the French Revolution): precisely because it lacked a political revolution.
Their brand of politics focusing on the identity of the individual is coopted by capitalism to fragment the working class and quell revolution.
Panitch 18 ~Leo Panitch, York University Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy, From the Streets to the State: Changing The World By Taking Power, pg 26-28~
What accounts for the impasse of the left by the late twentieth century? Over
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and perhaps most important to the democratization of the institutions of the state.
That causes material violence which increases inequality, environmental destruction and causes extinction.
Robinson 18 ~William I, professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. 2018. "Accumulation Crisis and Global Police State."http://revolutionary-socialism.com/en/accumulation-crisis-and-global-police-state/~~
Each major episode of crisis in the world capitalist system has presented the potential for
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espouse rhetoric of nationalism and protectionism even as they promote neo-liberalism.
The alternative is to Join the Party – reject the affs reorientation of IR and psychoanalysis on focus on building dual power to resist capitalism and materially benefit oppressed peoples. That's revolutionairy –
Escalante 18 ~Alyson, philosophy at U of Oregon, 08/24/2018. "Against Electoralism, For Dual Power!" https://theforgenews.org/2018/08/24/against-electoralism-for-dual-power/~~ lm
I am sure that at this point, the opportunists reading this have already begun
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to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen.
Sewell 5 ~Rob Sewell, In Defense of Marxism, Theory, "What is dialectical materialism," July 8th 2005, https://www.marxist.com/what-is-dialectical-materialism.htm~~#_c3~~/ lm
The Marxist view of the world is not only materialist, but also dialectical.
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is more than an outlook, it is a "philosophy of action."
Capitalism has created a pedagogy of exclusion justifying oppressive hierarchies and inequalities that preclude ethical reasoning. That means resisting capitalism is an a-priori obligation for the judge in this round.
Daly 4 ~Glyn Daly, Lecturer in International Studies at the University College Northampton. Conversations with Žižek. 14-19, 2004~
For Žižek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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that, like Žižek's own thought, exhorts us to risk the impossible.