Tournament: NSD | Round: 3 | Opponent: Philimon Yosafat | Judge: Rebecca Anderson
Basanta '20
~Comrade Basanta, polit-bureau member of the CPN-Maoist. 06/14/2020. "On American Crisis — 2," https://www.bannedthought.net/Nepal/CPN-Maoist/2020/OnAmericanCrisis-2-Basanta-Eng.pdf~~ pat
Nowadays, the United States of America is undergoing a serious crisis. As a
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the emancipation of the entire oppressed people in America, including the blacks.
Connell '12
~Raewyn, sociology at the University of Sydney. 2012. "The Poet of Autonomy: Antonio Negri as a Social Theorist," https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.985.4088andrep=rep1andtype=pdf~~ pat
Negri describes a power structure that operates on a world scale, but has no
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on other forms of labor and society itself" ~ibidem, 109~.
In the age of Empire, just governance has eroded. Labor movements under capital have their demands of capital and state reduced to mechanisms of maintaining equilibrium.
Connell 2
~Raewyn, sociology at the University of Sydney. 2012. "The Poet of Autonomy: Antonio Negri as a Social Theorist," https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.985.4088andrep=rep1andtype=pdf~~ sosa
Negri's first distinctive contribution was to apply Tronti's principle to the Keynesian state. In
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have this baroque monster of provocation and devastation" ~ibidem, 259~
Bifo '19
~Franco Berardi, Italian communist philosopher, theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition. May 2019. "Game Over," https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/268601/game-over/~~ pat
Social integration is collapsing, but at the same time, the process of civilization
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may prove enormously expensive. Panic and cynicism prevail in the terminal psychosphere.
This is unsustainable and causes extinction – multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die – we got charts.
von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17
Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018)
1.1 Introduction: The World in Disarray We all know that the world
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upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4).
Only the refusal of the extraction of capitalist value coupled with the swift and destructive power of the proletariat has the potential to tackle Empire.
Hardt and Negri '17 (Michael, professor of literature @ Duke, and Antonio, professor of political philosophy @ University of Padua, "Assembly," p. 235-239) BS sosa 4-4-2018 ~brackets for~ abeist language
A "social strike" is always a general strike, which, like general
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continually reproduced in the common. Around this entrepreneurship everything can be recomposed.
Hardt and Negri '17 ~Michael Hardt, professor of literature at Duke, and Antonio Negri, professor of political philosophy at the University of Padua. 2017. "Assembly."~ ask me for the PDF. sosa
The political division of labor within revolutionary and liberation movements between leaders and followers,
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which "spontaneity" arises and reveal what those social bodies can do.
Viewpoint '18
~Viewpoint Magazine aims to understand the struggles that define our conjuncture, critically reconstruct radical history, and reinvent Marxism for our time. Viewpoint is therefore neither a socialist news source nor an academic journal. It is a militant research collective. 02/01/2018. "Internationalism against Imperialism," https://viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/~~ pat
The challenge of reactivating an effective proletarian internationalism is made even more urgent by the
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had to put aside, even these lacks will have had a purpose.
You should understand the aff as a project of counter-hegemony – every debate and argument is a testing ground to strengthen our strike– voting affirmative is an investment in the war of position.
Carrol '6
~William, University of Victoria. 2006. "Hegemony, Counter-hegemony, Anti-hegemony," https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279801161_Hegemony_Counter-hegemony_Anti-hegemony~~ pat
The term counter-hegemony seems misleadingly complementary to hegemony. In actuality, there
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existing relationships of domination" (Brand and Hirsch, 2004: 377).
The Role of the Ballot is to affirm radical propaganda.
Studies prove debate is inevitably implicated in the context of propaganda – voting aff aligns with a model predicated on communist base-building.
Greene and Hicks '6
~Ronald Greene, former Chair of the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association, and Darrin Hicks, communication studies at the University of Denver. 2006. "Lost convictions: Debating both sides and the ethical self-fashioning of liberal citizens," https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502380500040928~~ bracketed for gender- pat sosa
In the hands of Dennis Day, the goal of debate was to reassign the
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Baird believed to be evident in 'the majority of students' was unstable.