Tournament: Urbradsmith | Round: 2 | Opponent: CUNY Joseph-Debater | Judge: Goodrich
The affirmative is unethical political constipation, aggressively seeking pleasure at the expense of real political change – they reduce material experience to a contingent relationship with ideology that destroys political agency and reifies capitalist domination
Ebert ’95 (Teresa, Professor of English, University at Albany, SUNY; specializes in Critical and Cultural Theory, Marxist Theory, Feminist Critique, and Globalization Theory. “(Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism.” in Post-Ality, Marxism and Postmodernism, edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Teresa Ebert and Donald Morton, Maisonneuve Press 1995.)
The non-discursive for ludic feminists in the 1990's, thus, becomes more
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on this point. In his "Body/Power," Foucault states that
The emergence of the problem of the body and its growing urgency have come about
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the important, if not essential elements. (Power/Knowledge 57)
The politics of Foucault's theorising of the body as a site of resistance materialism becomes
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the prevailing mode of "materialism" in ludic feminism in this way:
I mean materialism in its strongest sense: the material onto which we map our constructions, 'matter on its own terms that might resist or pressure our constructions, or prove independent of them altogether. This materialism is the nondiscursive something poststructuralist feminists now want to embrace, the extradiscursive something they confess necessarily eludes them. ("Bodies and God" 131)
Unlike historical materialism, which foregrounds the historical praxis of the materiality of labour,
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process of extracting surplus labour from the worker by the capitalist takes place.
War is a structural necessity of global capitalist integration
Mészáros 2003 István, Volume 55, Issue 02 (June), Militarism and the Coming Wars,
https://monthlyreview.org/2003/06/01/militarism-and-the-coming-wars
The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social
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and to the potential annihilation of humankind when we reach our own time.
It is most relevant to mention in this context the distinguished Prussian military officer and
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frequently quoted: “war is the continuation of politics by other means.”
This famous definition was tenable until quite recently, but has become totally untenable in
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military pursuit was guaranteed if the war could be considered winnable in principle.
Today the situation is qualitatively different for two principal reasons. First, the objective
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open ended limited wars,” can therefore be qualified only as total irrationality.
The second reason greatly reinforces the first. For the weapons already available for waging
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use of such weapons is by now considered an acceptable state strategic device.
Thus, put reasons one and two together, and the conclusion is inescapable:
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strategic document does, make Hitler’s irrationality look like the model of rationality.
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Since September 11, 2001, Washington has been imposing its aggressive policies on the
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for the purpose of controlling the potential rivals strategically crucial—oil resources.
However, the chronological order in the current American military doctrine is presented completely upside
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of mass destruction.” Can one get more cynical and hypocritical than that?
I have been firmly convinced for a long time that since the onset of capital’s structural crisis at the end of the 1960s or the beginning of the 1970s we live in a qualitatively new phase of imperialism, with the United States as its overwhelmingly dominant force. I called it in Socialism or Barbarism “the new historic phase of global hegemonic imperialism.”
The critique of U.S. imperialism—in contrast to the fashionable fantasies
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the atomic weapon of mass destruction against the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
When we consider these issues of extreme gravity, we cannot be satisfied with any
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come about, would still leave the underlying causes and structural determinations untouched.
To be sure, the new phase of global hegemonic imperialism is preponderantly under the
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imperialistic developments? It would be very naEFve to believe that it could.
Here I only wish to underline a central concern, namely that the logic of
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embody and more or less directly affect the changes of ongoing historical development.
With regard to the present phase of imperialism, two closely connected aspects are of
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the “American national interests” while denying such considerations to the others.
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Here we can see the contradictory relationship between a historical contingency—American capital finding
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the underlying systemic necessity is bound to remain the drive to global domination.
The question is, therefore, not simply the given militaristic ventures of some political
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which brings to the fore the changing but increasingly more perilous specific historical contingencies
Capitalism is the root cause
(A) Empirics
Glassman 4 (Jim, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, “Transnation hegemony and US labor foreign policy: towards a Gramscian international labor geography”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, volume 22, pages 573-593)
These patterns are referred to as modes of social relations of production, which encapsulate
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the social realities shaped through the production process' (Cox 1987, 353).
(B) Material oppression can’t be explained away by symbolic gestures like “you rely on use-value”—only material embodiment within the world informs our values. Without a “good use of the social,” their impacts are inevitable
Wood and Cox 93 (Julia, Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Robert, the Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, “Rethinkin critical voice: Material and situated konoledge”, Western Journal of Communication, pg 278 -287, Spring)
Yet, totalizing communication as the symbolic entails certain costs. Our enchantment with claims
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reality that cannot be denied and should not be beclouded by definitional quibbles.
Thus the alternative: Vote negative to endorse a revolutionary politics of objective materiality.
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Thus the alternative: Vote negative to endorse an objective system of politics and materiality
Capitalism is based on the systemic exploitation of labor power, mystifying the link between labor and society – critiquing the objective status of labor power allows for emancipatory politics and destroys capitalism
Ebert 96 Teresa L., For a Red Pedagogy: Feminist, Desire, and Need College English, Vol. 58, No. 7 (Nov., 1996), pp. 795-819
In other words, a corporeal knowledge that "traces the libidinal pathway," "
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, in short, the means for producing politically effective and transformative knowledges.