Tournament: International Forum for Socialists | Round: Finals | Opponent: Milton Friedman | Judge: Karl Marx
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Tournament: International Forum for Socialists | Round: Finals | Opponent: Milton Friedman | Judge: Karl Marx

• We don't read framework
• Neg strat is usually either a one off K or a slew of off case - we know no moderation
• We are diversifying. Beware.
• Past 2NRs:
  • Cap K
  • China DA
  • Climate K
  • Anthro K
  • T-Mexico
  • T-Toward
  • Bank of the South CP
  • Various plan flaws
  • Herod/Kappeler/Chow turns

Tournament: Alta | Round: 7 | Opponent: College Prep WX | Judge: Frank Walline

1NC Anthro

Modern understandings of warfare presume the exchange of violence between two human states – this conception excludes the systematic murder of non-human animal life and reconstitutes the false dichotomy that is presumed to exist between humanity and nature.

Kochi 9 (2009, Tarik, PhD, Lecturer in Law and International Security, University of Sussex, “Species War: Law, Violence, and Animals,” Law, Culture and the Humanities 2009; 5: 353–369, sagepub, azp)

Grotius and Hobbes are sometimes described as setting out a
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for preservation within the early modern juridical ordering of war. 

Anthropocentrism makes the destruction of the human and non-human inevitable.

Ahkin 10 (Mélanie works at Monash University, “Human Centrism, Animist Materialism, and the Critique of Rationalism in Val. Plumwood’s Critical Ecological Feminism,” Emergent Australasian Philosophers, 2010, Issue 3, http://www.eap.philosophy-australia.com/issue_3/EAP3_AHKIN_Human_Centrism.pdf)  
 
Such an anthropocentric framework creates a variety of serious injustices
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disembeddedness and self-enclosure and have a genuine and lasting effect.

Our alternative is to endorse the global suicide of humanity. The only possible way to atone for centuries of human chauvinism is to engage in utopian anti-humanism. Global suicide as a thought experiment is the most ethical response to anthropocentricism.

Kochi and Ordan 8 (Dec. 2008, Tarik Kochi, PhD, Lecturer in Law and International Security, University of Sussex, Noam Ordan, linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, research focus on human cultural history, “An argument for the global suicide of humanity,” Borderlands, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf, azp)

How might such a standpoint of dialectical, utopian anti-humanism reconfigure
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how hard we try to forget, suppress or repress it.

Tournament: UPS | Round: Finals | Opponent: Ingraham DS | Judge: Tom Schally, Austin Brittenham, John Clare

1NC Bank of the South CP

Text: The Bank of the South should take all necessary measures, including financing infrastructure, providing technical assistance, and issuing bonds and other financial tools, to relieve the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of public debt. The Bank of the South should provide all future financing to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

That solves – the Bank of the South is an alternative financial institution – it promotes economic regionalism independent of US interventionism

Nino 7 (Senior Associate at Global Insight, Luis C., Global Insight, “Seven-Member Bank of the South Comes Into Being”, 12/10/2007, http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/hottopics/lnacademic)//VS

The Bank of the South, a new multilateral bank with
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its independence from the political trends within the member states.  

The net benefit is Bank of the South credibility – bolstering the Bank of the South promotes regional economic autonomy and shifts away from Western neoliberalism – the aff just reentrenches future dependency

States News 7 (States News Service, “BANK OF SOUTH: ANOTHER STEP TOWARD LATIN AMERICAN INTEGRATION”, 12/07/2007, http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/hottopics/lnacademic)//VS

The Bank of the South appears to be one of
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provocative, and was not expected to cause Washington any grief.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent: Gonzaga Prep SJ | Judge: Matea Ivanovic

1NC Cap

Economic engagement strategies integrate capitalist modes of production

Jacobs 4 (Jamie Elizabeth, Assistant Prof of Polisci at West Virginia U, "Neoliberalism and Neopanamericanism: The View from Latin America,"  Latin American Politics and Society 46.4 (2004) 149-152, MUSE)

The advance of neoliberalism suffers no shortage of critics, both
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and the further weakening of state sovereignty in the South.

The impact is extinction

Brown 05 (Charles, Professor of Economics and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, 05/13/2005, http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2005w15/msg00062.htm)

The capitalist class owns the factories, the banks, and transportation
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large remains a shameful fact of life in the U.S.

Our alternative is to reject the aff - Refusing to participate in capitalism is the first step toward hollowing out the system and replacing it with an alternative

Herod 4 (James, renowned philosopher, author, and social activist, “Getting Free”, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm)

It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly
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not merely reforming one way of life into something else.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: Skyview MB | Judge: Irvin Alvarado

1NC China

US China relations are high – recent summit

Gross 6-4 (senior associate at The Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies, David Gross, “Creating a New Model for U.S.-China Relations at the Obama-Xi Summit”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-gross/creating-a-new-model-for-_b_3383480.html)

This week's summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and
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and significantly expands trade and investment between the two countries.

US engagement in Latin America increases US-China tension

Oxley 12 (Federal Executive Fellow, Audry, 5/10/2012, “Dragon Training at Home Exploring the Possibilities for Collaboration Between the U.S. and Chinese Navies in the Western Hemisphere,” pg. 6 http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/7/1020china20us20defense/1020china20us20defense.pdf, date accessed 7/2/2013 IGM)

However, a shift of tectonic proportions is underway in U.S.-China
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of which is to diminish U.S. influence in the Americas.

Lack of relations causes US China war, which escalates

Wittner 12 (Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany, Dr. Lawrence Wittner 11/10/12, Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-wittner/nuclear-war-china_b_1116556.html)

While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they
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the world, they should be working to encourage these policies.

Tournament: UPS | Round: Finals | Opponent: Ingraham DS | Judge: Tom Schally, Austin Brittenham, John Clare

Their strategy of privileged spectatorship is a guilt trip that robs the oppressed of the very terms to protest oppression.

 
Chow 93 (Rey, Andrew W. Mellon, Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, Writing Diaspora: Contemporary Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies, Indiana University Press, pg. 12-13.)

In the “cultural studies” of the American academy in the
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longer distinguishable from those who have had our consciousnesses “raised.”

Tournament: Alta | Round: 3 | Opponent: Carrollton GT | Judge: Rob Mulholand

1NC Climate

Imaginaries of climatic apocalypticism are profoundly depoliticizing—appeals to a singular human fate objectify nature and ensure nothing changes.

Swyngedouw 13 (Erik, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development, “Apocalypse Now! Fear and Doomsday Pleasures,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2013 Vol. 24, No. 1, 918)

A flood of literature on the relationship between apocalyptic imaginaries
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in Rancie`re’s (1998) words, so that nothing really has to change.

The impact is unending structural violence and apocalyptic environmental destruction along the periphery

Swyngedouw 13 (Erik, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development, “Apocalypse Now! Fear and Doomsday Pleasures,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2013 Vol. 24, No. 1, 918)

What we are witnessing is a strange reversal whereby the
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both in time and across space (see Calder Williams 2011).

Our alternative is to vote negative to unconditionally reject climate catastrophism.

The alternative actualizes radical politics within specific environments—that’s crucial to the creation of new social relations that solve the aff.

Swyngedouw 13 (Erik, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development, “Apocalypse Now! Fear and Doomsday Pleasures,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2013 Vol. 24, No. 1, 918)

Against this cynical stand, the third, and for me proper
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free, and common re-ordering of the human/non-human imbroglios be forged.

Tournament: UPS | Round: Finals | Opponent: Ingraham DS | Judge: Tom Schally, Austin Brittenham, John Clare

The government isn’t pursuing the plan as a matter of choice.  They aren’t unaware of the harms—the AFF’s entire advantage assumes both that US imperialism is merely a “mistake” and that knowledge about the way that policy is formed can do anything to change the violence of the status quo.

*Herod 01 (James, “A Stake, Not a Mistake: On Not Seeing the Enemy”, October, http://www.jamesherod.info/index.php?sec=paperandid=9andprint=yandPHPSESSID=4387a9147ad42723ea101944dd538914)

I spent several years in the early sixties studying Underdevelopment
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states and governments, they could begin to see another way.

Tournament: UPS | Round: Finals | Opponent: Ingraham DS | Judge: Tom Schally, Austin Brittenham, John Clare

Their representation of violence as an outcome of institutions fixates us on the major dramas of power while distracting us from our own culpability for violence.

Kappeler 95 (Suzanne Kappeler, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University, The Will to Violence, 1995, 9-11)

War does not suddenly break out in a peaceful society
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to stop this backlash', or 'I want a moral revolution.'?

Tournament: International Forum for Socialists | Round: Finals | Opponent: Milton Friedman | Judge: Karl Marx

Capitalism is dehumanizing – people become nothing more than material conditions of production.

Meszaros 95 (Istvan, University of Sussex professor, 1995, Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition, pg. 527)

The raison d'etre of such changes is not too difficult
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never-ending multiplication of material wealth as the aim of production.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mt Vernon HK | Judge: Jack Fischer

1NC Normativity

Text: We affirm the entirety of the 1ac except for the plan text.

It’s net beneficial – it solves better because it doesn’t start at the place of the state or include the pretended fiated action we will get links to.

It’s legit – they get 100 of the plan to generate offense versus the cp, this is a necessary test against critical affirmatives.

There is no internal link between the plan text and the solvency.

Schlag 90 (Pierre Schlag, professor of law@ univ. Colorado, stanford law review, november, page lexis)

In fact, normative legal thought is so much in a
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to put any of its wonderful normative advice into effect.

The assumption of 1AC solvency papers over the rough edges of the world with warm and fuzzy normative legal talk, emotionally disconnecting them from the implications of the speech act

Delgado 91 (richard delgado , colorado law professor, 139 pa. L. Rev. 933, april)

But what is the cash value of all this priest-talk
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where the Supreme Court has been faced with subsistence claims.

They are more interested in playing hermeneutic games than engaging in politics, the preoccupation with pretending to be policymakers traps them in a spectator position and bars them from recognizing the bureaucratic violence of legal praxis.

Schlag 90 (Pierre Schlag, professor of law@ univ. Colorado, stanford law review, november, page lexis)

All of this can seem very funny. That's because it
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largely the manipulated constructions of bureaucratic practices -- academic and otherwise.