Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westminster SF | Judge: Makuch
The aff’s globalizing nature decreases sovereignty and results in Empire-this is distinct from a criticism of neoliberalism-that globalizing nature leads to global oppression
Mentinis 06 (Mihalis Mentinis, spent a year in Chiapas with the Zapatistas, researcher in the discourse unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, "Zapatistas, The Chiapas Revolt, and what it means for Radical Politics," print book, DS)
EMPIRE: THE WORLD ORDER The decline in sovereignty of nation-states does not
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of domination by the global system, a reduction to powerlessness and poverty.
Empire enables a single power and makes police action, war, neoliberalism, racism, and economies of life inevitable and ubiquitous
Mentinis 06 (Mihalis Mentinis, spent a year in Chiapas with the Zapatistas, researcher in the discourse unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, "Zapatistas, The Chiapas Revolt, and what it means for Radical Politics," print book, DS)
(p. 284) It is the shift marked by the passage to Empire
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juridical structures, and pushed forward the transition towards a properly global system.
The modern system of nation-states and empire leads to violence-the only way to solve that is to break down modern boundaries and move towards the Zapatista’s systems of individual autonomy
Mentinis 06 (Mihalis Mentinis, spent a year in Chiapas with the Zapatistas, researcher in the discourse unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, "Zapatistas, The Chiapas Revolt, and what it means for Radical Politics," print book, DS)
To be sure, people have the right to defend themselves against the exploitation and
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regime of global relations represented by the Empire, against the world state.