Tournament: UGA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northview PC | Judge: Andre Gannon
First, the affirmative is confined to the dominant discourse of transnational capital — this produces unethical policy decisions based on an unsustainable system — we control uniqueness
Makwana 06 — Rajesh Makwana, the executive director of Share The World's Resources, 2006 (“Neoliberalism and Economic Globalization,” STWR, November 23rd, Available Online at http://www.stwr.org/globalization/neoliberalism-and-economic-globalization.html, Accessed on February 18, 2014)
The goal of neoliberal economic globalization is the removal of all barriers to commerce…
The privatization of resources and profits by the few at the expense of the many, and the inability of the poorest people to afford market prices, are both likely causes.
Second, this normalizes the destruction of the environment and the exploitation of the lower class based on the short term logic of growth — the impact is extinction
Werlhof 08 — Claudia von Werlhof, Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2008 ("The Consequences of Globalization and Neoliberal Policies. What are the Alternatives?" Centre for Research on Globalization, February 1st, Available Online at www.globalresearch.ca/the-consequences-of-globalization-and-neoliberal-policies-what-are-the-alternatives/7973, Accessed on February 18, 2014)
Social, cultural, traditional and ecological considerations are abandoned … all critique will soon be defined as “terror” and persecuted as such (Chossudovsky 2005).
The alternative is a process of critique that challenges the ideology of capital by prioritizing human development over production. The perm renders the alt unworkable by obscuring a true understanding of global power structures. Lebowitz 13 Rebekah Wetmore and Ryan Romard interview Michael Lebowitz, professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and author of The Socialist Alternative, Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2004), Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century, and Following Marx: Method, Critique and Crisis, Director of Program in Transformative Practice and Human Development, Centro Internacional Miranda, in Caracas, Venezuela, from 2006-2011, published January 17, 2013 (“Capitalism, Crises, and a Socialist Alternative: In Conversation With Michael A. Lebowitz,”Monthly Review Magazine, Available online at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/lebowitz170113.html, Accessed on 1/25/12) KS
RW/RR: In The Socialist Alternative, you argue that "given the heterogeneity of the collective worker (and its various forms of immiseration) and capital's use of differences to divide the working class in order to defeat it… We can use the opportunity of the current crisis to demonstrate how it is a system that we need to go beyond.