DDI09CapitalismGenericQuinn.doc

Capitalism K Index - DDI 2009 Generic: Sausage Edition Index 1-2
Capitalism K 1NC Short Shell 3-5
Capitalism K 1NC Long Shell 6-13
Link - Hegemony 14-15
Link - K Aff: AT Turn 16
Link - K Affs 17
Link - Welfare 18-19
Link - Welfare Reform 20
Link - State intervention 21
Link - Immigration 22
Link - Natives 23
Link - Identity Politics 24
Link - Gender 25-26
Link - Feminism: AT Turn 27
Link - Democracy 28-31
Link - Public Health Care 32
Link - Ethical/Moral Obligation 33
Link - Moral Obligation 35
Link - "Help Them" 36
Link - Multiculturalism 37
Link - Abortion 38-39
Link - Environment 40
Link - Health Care 41
Link - Prisons 42-44
Link - HUD 45
Link - Postal Service 46-47
Link - Assets Discourse 48-52
Link - Competitiveness Discourse 53-54
Link - Law 55
Link - Environmental sustainability 56
Link - Environmental justice 57-59
Link - Internet 60
Link - Broadband 61-63
Link - The State 64-65
Link - Mental Health 66-67
Capitalism Impacts - War 68-75
Capitalism Impacts - Ecosystem 76-79
Capitalism Impacts - Democracy 80-82
Capitalism Impacts - Laundry List 83-84
Capitalism Impacts - Extinction 85-86
Capitalism Impacts - Poverty 87-99
Capitalism Impacts - Value to Life 100-101
Capitalism Impacts - Mental Health 102-103
Capitalism Impacts - Genocide/Racism 104-108
Capitalism Impacts - Economy 109-111
Capitalism Impacts - Ethics 112
Capitalism Impacts - Social Services 114-115
Alt - Zizek 116
Alt - Wallis (in shell) 118
Alt - Herod 119
Alt - Chryssostalis 120
Alt - Harmen 122
Alt solvency - rejection 123-129
Alt solvency - rethink politics 130-132
Alt solvency - debate 133-135
Alt solvency - discourse 136-138
Alt solvency - representations 139
Alt solvency - liberalism/compassion 140
Alt solvency - action now 141-142
Alt solvency - moral obligation 143
Alt solvency - individual advocacy 145
Alt solvency - local transformation 146
Alt solvency - ontology 148
Alt solves environment 149
Alt solves poverty 150
Alt solves violence 151
Alt solves authoritarian control 152
Alt Solves - Feminism 153
AT: Cap Inevitable 154-158
AT: Cap decreases poverty 159-161
AT: Cap solves social divisions 162
AT: Cap Key to Space 163
AT: Pragmatism 165
AT: Perm 166-189
AT: Vague Alternative 190
AT: No alternative 191
AT: Plan is good cap 193
AT: Gibson-Graham 194-199
AT: Howard-Hassmann 200
AT: Cap Sustainable 201-202
AT: Cap Good 203-204
AT: Socialism Bad 205
AT: Case outweighs 206-207
AT: Role-playing 208
AT: Timeframe 209
AT: Postmodern Marxism 210-215
Affirmative - Cap inevitable 216-218
Affirmative - Gibson-Graham 219-220
Affirmative - Perm solvency 221-223
Affirmative - Alternative Fails 224
Affirmative - Democracy turn 226
Affirmative - Cap solves poverty 227-232
Affirmative - Cap leads to peace
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Affirmative - Value to life
turn........................................................................
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Affirmative - Human Rights
turn........................................................................
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Affirmative - Environment
turn........................................................................
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Affirmative - AT: Cap not
moral........................................................................
...............................238
Affirmative - AT: Root
Cause........................................................................
...................................239
Capitalism K 1NC Short Shell (1) A. Link - Social services legitimize capitalism - this turns case by
recreating the labor force and replacing one social problem with many
others. Hall, prof @ University College London, 89
Peter Hall Prof. Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University
College London. 1989. Cities of Tomorrow. Pgs. 335-341
At the same time, a specifically Marxian view of planning emerged in the
English-speaking world. To describe it adequately would require a course
in Marxist theory. But, in inadequate summary, it states that the
structure of the capitalist city itself, including its land-use and
activity patterns, is the result of capital in pursuit of profit.
Because capitalism is doomed to recurrent crises, which deepen in the
current stage of late capitalism, capital calls upon the state, as its
agent, to assist it by remedying disorganization in commodity
production, and by aiding the reproduction of the labour force. It thus
tries to achieve certain necessary objectives: to facilitate continued
capital accumulation, by ensuring rational allocation of resources; by
assisting the reproduction of the labour force through the provision of
social services, thus maintaining a delicate balance between labour and
capital and preventing social disintegration; and by guaranteeing and
legitimating capitalist social and property relations. As Dear and Scott
put it: 'In summary, planning is an historically-specific and socially-
necessary response to the self-disorganizing tendencies of privatized
capitalist social and property relations as these appear in urban
space.'° In particular, it seeks to guarantee collective provision of
necessary infrastructure and certain basic urban services, and to reduce
negative externalities whereby certain activities of capital cause
losses to other parts of the system.59 But, since capitalism also wishes
to circumscribe state planning as far as possible, there is an inbuilt
contradiction: planning, because of this inherent inadequacy, always
solves one problem only by creating another.60 Thus, say the Marxists,
nineteenth-century clearances in Paris created a working-class housing
problem; American zoning limited the powers of industrialists to locate
at the most profitable locations." And planning can never do more than
modify some parameters of the land development process; it cannot change
its intrinsic logic, and so cannot remove the contradiction between
private accumulation and collective action." Further, the *capitalist
class is by no means homogenous; different fractions of capital may have
divergent, even contradictory interests, and complex alliances may be
formed in consequence; thus, latter-day Marxist explanations come close
to being pluralist, albeit with a strong structural element.' But in the
process, 'the more that the State intervenes in the urban system, the
greater is the likelihood that different social groups and fractions
will contest the legitimacy of its decisions. Urban life as a whole
becomes progressively invaded by political controversies and dilemmas'.
Capitalism K 1NC Short Shell (2)
B. Impact - Capitalism's drive for material makes crisis and extinction
inevitable.
Meszaros, prof Philosophy & Political Theory, 95
Istvan Meszaros, 1995, Professor at University of Sussex, England, "Beyond
Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition" With regard to its innermost determination the capital system is
expansion oriented and accumulation-driven. Such a determination
constitutes both a formerly unimaginable dynamism and a fateful
deficiency. In this sense, as a system of social metabolic control
capital is quite irresistible for as long as it can successfully extract
and accumulate surplus-labour-whether in directly economic or in
primarily political form- in the course of the given society's expandoed
reproduction. Once, however, this dynamic process of expansion and
accumulation gets stuck (for whatever reason) the consequences must be
quite devastating. For even under the 'normality' of relatively limited
cyclic disturbances and blockages the destruction that goes with the
ensuing socioeconomic and political crises can be enormous, as the
annals of the twentieth century reveal it, including two world wars (not
to mention numerous smaller conflagrations). It is therefore not too
difficult to imagine the implications of a systemic, truly structural
crisis; i.e. one that affects the global capital system not simply under
one if its aspects-the financial/monetary one, for instance-but in all
its fundamental dimensions, questioning its viability altogether as a
social reproductive system. Under the conditions of capital's structural
crisis its destructive constituents come to the fore with a vengeance,
activating the spectre of total uncontrollability in a form that
foreshadows self-destruction both for this unique social reproductive
system itself and for humanity in general. As we shall see in Chapter 3,
capital was near amenable to proper and durable control or rational self-
restraint. For it was compatible only with limited adjustments, and even
those only for as long as it could continue to pursue in one form or
another the dynamics of self-expansion and the process of accumulation.
Such adjustments consisted in side-stepping, as it were, the encountered
obstacles and resistances when capital was unable to frontally demolish
them. This characteristic of uncontrollability was in fact one of the
most important factors that secured capitals irresistible advancement
and ultimate victory, which it had to accomplish despite the earlier
mentioned fact that capital's mode of metabolic control constituted the
exception and not the rule in history. After all, capita