Tournament: Barkley Forum | Round: 1 | Opponent: College Prep | Judge:
Free trade isn’t free – expanding trade incorporates more of the world’s working class into the American economic machine, adding fuel to the global fire. Vote negative – we must reject neoliberal conceptions in order to learn to operate outside the lens of economic rationality.
De Angelis, lecturer in Political Economy at University of East London, July 2000 ~Massimo, Trade, the global factory and the struggles for new commons, Paper presented at the CSE conference "Global Capital and Global Struggles: Strategies, Alliances, and Alternatives"~
Let us be clear from the outset. There is no such as thing as
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Behind these unqualified concepts, there lies the project of today’s capital’s strategies.
It’s try or die – neoliberalism makes extinction inevitable.
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 is a commonplace now that peace is not merely the absence of war.
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mass destructive weapons, and also due to irreversible changes in natural environment.
Human rights discourse delegitimizes local forms of resistance and strengthens neoliberalism.
David Kennedy is Henry Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, "The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?" Spring 2002, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Vol. 15
Hegemony as resource allocation. The claim here is that this institutional and political hegemony
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neo-liberal players who do not see development as a special problem.
Neoliberalism has hijacked progressive public spheres, making genuine democratic deliberation impossible – that’s Hamann.
And, democratic deliberation solves extinction.
Boggs 97 (Carl Boggs, The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America National University, Los Angeles Theory and Society 26: 741-780
The decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America poses a series
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embodiment of those universal, collective interests that had vanished from civil society.