Tournament: JCCC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Concordia CS | Judge: Eric Short

Plan: The United States congress should institute a Universal Selective Service Act as the only means for introducing armed forces into hostilities.

Observation 1  is the Class Divide

Class division in the U.S. is growing now enabling capitalism

Leonhardt 05’ "Shadowy Lines That Still Divide" By Janny Scott and David Leonhardt New York Times may 15, 2005
But class is still a powerful force in American life. Over the past three
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of opportunity, the differences between them do not add up to class barriers

The volunteer military is the largest example of that

Glater 05 JONATHAN D. GLATER, New York Time "Blue Collars in Olive Drab" May 22, 2005
On a humid November evening in Gulfport, Miss., National Guard members from Tennessee
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to support the war in Iraq, however much they may have hated the
prospect of being away from home and serving in a hostile country

Class division is the crux of capitalism

WSM 2006-08-13 The World Socialist Movement (or WSM) consists of people who have organised themselves democratically with one objective: to bring about a complete change in world society. We are made up of companion parties and groups in several countries.
The WSM is a global socialist movement that believes capitalism cannot meet the needs of the majority of us, the workers (or proletariat) of the world, no matter how progressive it might become in the future.To meet these needs we contend that capitalism must be replaced.
Class division¶ Capitalism is the social system which now exists in all countries of
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needs will only ever come a poor second to the requirements of profit.

Neoliberalism creates invisible wars on those at the bottom of the class divide and results in ecological collapse.

Szentes ’8
Tamás Szentes, a Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. "Globalisation and prospects of the world society" 4/22/08 http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf

It’ s a common place that human society can survive and develop only in a
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mass destructive weapons, and also due to irreversible changes in natural environment.

We control the scale of violence – structural violence is necessary to psychologically prime people for macro-level conflict

Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ’4
(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn)
(Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)

This large and at first sight "messy" Part VII is central to this
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including the house gun and gated communities; and reversed feelings of victimization).

Conscription overcomes the class divide and trains soldiers for the revolution.

Landy 04 Proletarian Revolution No. 69 (Winter 2004) "The Leninist position on conscription" Sy Landy- an American Trotskyist politician founded the Communist Organization for the Fourth International.

But it is ABC for Marxists that as long as the working class does not
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and not by pious wishes, but by defeating and disarming the bourgeoisie."

Observation 2 is Solvency

The Military industrial complex draws upon lower social and socioeconomic classes to do their bidding- conscription solves

Segal et al 10 Princeton Brookings Journal vol 20 number 1 spring 2010: "The Military and Transition to Adulthood" (Ryan Kelty Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington College )Meredith Kleykamp(Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas) David R. Segal(Professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland)
Men and women serving in the volunteer military did not come from the underclass of
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inclusive across the socioeconomic spectrum than it was during periods of wartime conscription.

Conscription breaks down social classes- don’t let their free market mindset scare you

Michael Prowse 2k’  "A reasonable request for all to contribute", Financial Times (London,England)
May 27, 2000, Saturday London Edition 1 pg. 24 (AT)
If we all did a year of national service at the end of formal schooling
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to reflect on the preconditions of the liberties that they so rightly cherish.

Conscription reduces mass support for war and discourages the president from entering conflicts.

Horowitz and Levendusky 11 The Journal of Politics, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2011, Pp. 524–534 Drafting Support for War: Conscription and Mass Support for Warfare
At the most basic level, our results provide the microfoundations for arguments linking conscription
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staff their militaries has important implications for how the mass public supports wars.

Conscription creates a rallying point for protests that result in greater class consciousness and spark a revolution – Vietnam proves.

Hall 3, Tim, May 25, communist voice, Trotskyist LRP opposes draft resistance http://www.communistvoice.org/31cLRP.html**
This is atrocious. Here the LRP betrays the rich history of the anti-
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both a struggle against militarization and conscription and a utilization of it. 

Observation 3 is Framework

METHOD IS THE FOREMOST POLITICAL QUESTION BECAUSE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND EXISTING SOCIAL TOTALITY BEFORE ONE CAN KNOW HOW TO ACT

TUMINO (Prof. English @ Pitt) 2001
~Stephen, "What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More than Ever", Red Critique, p. online wyo-tjc~
Any effective political theory will have to do at least two things: it will
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determinism of corporate theory ("knowledge work") that masquerades as social theory.

We have an apriori ethical obligation to reject global capitalism – utilitarian rationale can’t account for the degraded life chances of billions across the globe – capitalism makes its victims anonymous, destroying the ability to find value in life

Zizek and Daly ’4(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 18-19)

For Zizek, a confrontation with the obscenities of abundance capitalism also requires a transformation
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that, like Zizek’s own thought, exhorts us to risk the impossible.

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