Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Binghamton CP | Judge: Jillian Marty

1. Embracing “experience” as the basis for epistemology ignores the mediated nature of experience. Experience is just another site for articulating the dominant ideology because it ignores the historical continuity of class domination in favor of a “local” understanding of oppression.
   Young 6 (Robert, Red Critique, Winter/Spring, “Putting Materialism back into Race Theory”, http://www.redcritique.org/WinterSpring2006/puttingmaterialismbackintoracetheory.htm)

Bourgeois philosophical assumptions ... the invocation of the black (transcendental) subject.

2. Identity politics necessarily sustain the regular functioning of capitalism – identity formation is the process by which capitalism divides the working class to make resistance impossible.  This guarantees that political demands are not elevated past the level of particularism and reaching the level of the bourgeoisie becomes the ultimate objective.
Brown 93 (Wendy, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, “Wounded Attachments” Political Theory, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Aug., 1993), pp. 392-395, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/191795)

Although this détente...the explicity politicized marking. 

3. The logic of capitalism results in extinction through the creation of ecological catastrophe and violent imperialist wars that will turn nuclear

Foster 5 John Bellamy, Monthly Review, September, Vol. 57, Issue 4, “Naked Imperialism”, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm

From the longer view ...against the new naked imperialism.

4. Vote negative to adopt the historical material criticism of the 1NC - historical analysis of the material conditions of capital is the only way to break free from is contradictions and social inequalities it causes

Tumino 1 (Steven, teaches at the City University of New York, Spring, What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever Before)

Any effective political theory ... that masquerades as social theory.

5. Class divisions are the root of all other oppressions

Kovel 2 (Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, awarded Fellowship at the John Guggenheim Foundation, Joel, The Enemy of Nature, pages 123-124)

If, however, we ask the...another cannot be conjured away. 

6. Historical materialism must come first - it predetermines consciousness and the very possibilities of reflective thinking

Marx 1859 (Karl, a pretty important dude. “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: Preface” http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm) JM
edited for gendered language

In the social production of ... the framework of the old society.

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Binghamton CP | Judge: Jillian Marty
A. Interpretation—the affirmative must discuss a war powers authority of the President of the United States.

D. Best for education
Debate between citizens about the scope of executive power is crucial to revitalize democracy
Schwarz, senior counsel, and Huq, associate counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 2007 Frederick A.O., Jr., partner at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, chief counsel to the Church Committee, and Aziz Z, former clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court, Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror, p. 8-9
This book does three things...to bind up the nation's wounds."22 ."

War powers debates are good—without framework, there’s a competitive incentive to avoid them and the neg ground associated—
Kurr 2013 – Ph.D. student in the Communication Arts and Sciences program at Pennsylvania State University and a coach for the Penn State Debate Society (9/5, UVA Miller Center and CEDA Public Debate Series, “Bridging Competitive Debate and Public Deliberation on Presidential War Powers”, http://public.cedadebate.org/node/14)

Taken together, ...debaters reinvigorate debate.