Tournament: CSUN | Round: 2 | Opponent: Weber SS | Judge: Luis Magallon
Capitalism racializes subjects to divide social groups - a race and experience based epistemology and theory of oppression breaks down the concept of class as an all encompassing theory of exploitation that is the only way to enable the unification of the proleteriat
Zavarzadeh 3 (Mas’ud, “The Pedagogy of Totality” p.11-13, in “JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics”, Volume 23.1, http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol23.1.html)

The pedagogy of ...as independence and free choice. 

The affirmative sustains capitalism by denying the fluid nature of borders in claiming they can be separated from capitalism—only orthodox Marxism can solve the harms of the aff by recognizing structural inequality as the source of division
DeFazio, professor @ the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 02
Kimberly, May/June, Red Critique, “Whither Borders?”, http://www.redcritique.org/MayJune02/whitherborders.htm 

Until recently the leaders ... more popular discourse of the Internet.

Chicana/o studies embraces postmodernity’s emphasis on ambivalence and partiality—this mystifies social relations and makes a critique of capitalism impossible
Gonzalez 4 Marcial, “Historical Materialism and Chicana/o Cultural Studies,” Science and Society 68.2

In arguing that Chicana/o ... ambivalence as the product of capitalist exploitation. 

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.

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 question ....and social inequalities it causes

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.

Historical materialist understanding of the way that consciousness is shaped by social reality is key to negate the ideology of ambivalence and contradiction embraced by postmodernism.  This is a prerequisite to transforming capitalist social relations and solving the aff because the reality of class conflict is the methodological dynamo of our times.
Gonzalez 2004 Marcial, “Historical Materialism and Chicana/o Cultural Studies,” Science and Society 68.2

I shall draw this essay to ... the ideology, not the critique.

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 ... framework of the old society.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 2 | Opponent: Weber SS | Judge: Luis Magallon
Our interpretation is that the affirmative should have to instrumentally defend the institutional implementation of a topical plan.

1. Political is value to life—it is how originally solipsistic lives become incarnate and real to themselves.
   Arendt 1958 Hannah, The Human Condition, pp. 196-199
   The original, prephilosophic Greek... own but without reality.29

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 3 | Opponent: Weber BS | Judge: Sarah Spring
Interp: War Powers Authority refers to capacities explicitly granted by Congress – that means the aff must restrict authority under the WPR, AUMF, or NDAA

“War Powers” refer to Congressional abilities – Presidential CINC powers are distinct
Gallagher 11 served as an F/A-18C Pilot, Air Officer, and F/A-18C/D Flight Instructor in the US Marine Corps operating forces. He worked Security Assistance initiatives for the US European Command and most recently as a Joint Planner in the USEUCOM J3 and J5. Gallagher is currently assigned to the Joint Staff, Pakistan-Afghanistan Coordination Cell (Joseph V. III, Parameters, Summer 2011, pp. 23-24, http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/ Articles/2011summer/Gallagher.pdf)
First, consider the constitutional ... to execute a president’s foreign policy.9  Kenneth B. Moss, Undeclared War and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 217.

 Authority means expressly granted – assertions by the president don’t count
Words and Phrases 04  (Volume 4a, Cumulative Supplement Pamphlet, p. 275)
U.S.N.Y. 1867.  Under the federal ... Supreme Court has dismissed.—Milligar v. Hartupee, 73 U.S. 258, 6 Wall. 258, 18 L.Ed. 829

 Explodes the topic – Existing executive assertions of power allow the President to ignore all laws – the aff could pass new restrictions on literally anything
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. 153
Familiar failings from... Constitution of 1787.