Tournament: BHS Tigers Eye | Round: 1 | Opponent: FH CrispBoorojeni-Pudeh | Judge: Dylan Parker
US models of economic engagement towards Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela extend a trend of plutocratic restructuring designed to hollow out public institutions and squash progressive social movements in the service of raw export extraction through the vehicle of schemas of hegemonic knowledge designed for domination and immiseration
Lander ‘2, (Edgardo, Prof. of Sociology and Latin American studies at the Venezuelan Central University in Caracas, “Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the “Natural” Order of Global Capital, Nepantla: Views from South”, 3.2, muse)
The perspective of Eurocentric knowledge
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the requirement' (Singer and Orbuch 1997).
The impact is extinction – corporatist monocultures force conformity to a single mode of being – non-conforming lifeforms are externalized through violence
Lander ‘2,
(Edgardo, Prof. of Sociology and Latin American studies at the Venezuelan Central University in Caracas, “Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the “Natural” Order of Global Capital, Nepantla: Views from South”, 3.2, muse)
Just as resources formerly
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lead to destruction and death
We are not a critique of capitalism but rather the hegemony of neoclassical economics which places profit-motive above human well-being. Our alternative embraces a form of cooperative economics to drive an economy for the people by the people with a proven track-record of success. Our alternative empowers the autonomy of the many to end the stranglehold of power by the few. Our approach understand the fundamental prerequisite of democratizing the workplace to altering material relations of power
Stone and Bowman '11 Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone, scholar-activists and co-founders of the Center for Global Justice "Cooperativization on the Mondragón Model As Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism" 11/15 http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/2011/11/15/cooperativization-on/, xdi
Globalization has failed humanity. In
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such threats to their hegemony
Even if there is no concrete alternative to plutocracy, using the debate space to criticize inequality incentivizes research practices that are more attuned to everyday human life and the impact of economics on ecological systems -- only this move can prioritize the solidarity of vulnerable communities
Nixon ‘11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 14-16)
How do we bring home
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interest to the corporate media