Neoliberalism Aff

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• Modern democracy-assistance policies increase capitalism through imperial reach and economic integration. Corporations use the democratic notions of justice and egalitarianism to disguise their neoliberal agenda.
  Dixon 11 (Marion, doctoral candidate, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Review of African Political Economy, "An Arab Spring,” 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2011.582766)
  The ‘imperial reach’ represents...
  
  The concept of providing "democracy assistance" through education and politics was created only to maintain the neo-liberal agenda. The demands of neoliberalism are co-opting the narrative of the M.E.N.A Revolutions.
  Armbrust 11 (Walter, Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Albert Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at University of Oxford & St. Antony's College. "The Revolution Against Neoliberalism" http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/contributors/10682)
  …  The last great wave of revolutions occurred in 1989. The governments that were collapsing then were communist, and the replacement in that “shock moment” of one extreme economic system with its opposite seemed predictable and to many even natural. One of the things that make the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions potentially...

  
  Moment of Fortuna for Secularism
  
  No consideration of democracy is complete without an understanding of its origins in modern political theory. During the Renaissance period, in its first stage, influenced by Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke, Western powers prescribe a civil society with their constitutions in which democracy and capitalism coexist.
  Forde 12 (Steven, Winner of the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Political Theory (1986). Author of The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides, of articles in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics and International Studies Quarterly. Specializes in classical and American political thought and international ethics.. “JOHN LOCKE and the NATURAL LAW and NATURAL RIGHTS TRADITION”)
  
  John Locke is one of the founders...

  
  Moment of Fortuna for Capitalism
  
  In its second stage, with the collapse of the Soviet Union 1989-1991, capitalism gives birth to liberalism. As U.S. becomes the sole superpower, it champions privately-regulated markets around the globe.
  
  Moment of Fortuna for Neo-Liberalism
  
  But in its third stage, in 2011 and 2012, bank crises erupt in America and Europe and gave rise to a radical shift in the doctrine of capitalism. Newly evolving State Capitalism begins to systemically exacerbate the harms in the status quo.
  The Economist 01/21/12 (The Economist, English-language weekly news and international affairs publication. "The visible hand."3-5).
  
  … The crisis of liberal capitalism ...
  
  The M.E.N.A Revolution as a Moment of Fortuna
  
  The M.E.N.A. revolution is a moment of opportunity for the bourgeoisie to infiltrate the Middle East. While most advocates of pro-democracy-assistance know that Middle Easterns want to be free from poverty and persecution, few understand that the U.S. and other Western governments play a central role in creating and maintaining social and economic deprivation.

  Zizek 07 (Slavoj, is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, “Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?”)

  …And it is crucial to read the ongoing events in Tunisia and Egypt (and Yemen and …

  Corporate interests control literature surrounding democracy-assistance policies.
  Schechter 98 (Danny, is a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic who writes and lectures frequently about the media in the United States and worldwide. He specializes in investigative journalism and producing programming about the interfaces among human rights, journalism, popular music and society. He was the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. Chapter 2, Peace Journalism and Media War: the Fight to Reform Journalism, What Are Journalists For?)
  
  News templates are so similar worldwide. Much...
  
  Corporatism co-opts culture in less-developed states by advertising the infinite-consumption American-way-of-life. Middle Easterners accept American aid in times of immediacy only to be lured to desire the products of capitalism. The U.S.' control of information, desire and opportunity reduces life to a bare economic value. 
  Armbrust 11 (Walter, Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Albert Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at University of Oxford & St. Antony's College. "The Revolution Against Neoliberalism" http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/contributors/10682)
  The last time I encountered the word “technocrat” was in Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine[4] — a searing indictment of neoliberalism which argues that the free-market fundamentalism promoted by economist Milton Friedman...
  
  Capitalism allows the body to be sold as commodity. Rendering life subject to economic calculation causes devaluation of life.
  Roth 96 (Michael, Philosopher at Northwestern University, The Poetics of Resistance; Evanston: Northwestern University)
  
  In technology, there are...
  
  Expansion of capitalism causes planetary ecological catastrophe and makes nuclear war inevitable.
  Foster 05 (John, Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon, “Naked imperialism.” Monthly Review, September 2005 http://www.monthlyreview.org/nakedimperialism.htm)
  From the longer view offered by a historical-materialist critique of capitalism, the direction that would be taken by U.S. imperialism following the fall of the Soviet Union was never in doubt. 
  
  Capitalism by its very logic...
  
  So the affirmative asks you to recognize the ontological roots of democracy in capitalism as a way to expose the facade of democracy assistance.
  
  The ideals of democracy or democracy assistance themselves are not problematic but their actualization through the mode capitalism is. Despite their drawbacks, principles of democracy can be useful in creating agency and addressing a diverse array of struggles—to reject these ideals is to cede the meaning of democracy to the bourgeoisie.

  Giroux 05 (Henry, an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of. Cultural Politics.” 5-6.)

  …Under neoliberal domestic restructuring...

  The debate space is crucial because it gives individuals the agency, as micro-political actors, to reclaim democracy from the capitalist drive for profit-at-all-costs.

  Giroux 05 (Henry, an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of. Cultural Politics.” 10.)

  …Neoliberalism offers no critical vocabulary...

  Problematizing the historical narrative of democracy and capitalism is prerequisite to liberation from capitalist tools of oppression.
  Benjamin 1940

  (Walter, a German intellectual who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist, “Theses on the Philosophy of History”)

  To articulate the past historically...
  
  The roll of the ballot is to affirm the problematization of democracy by unshackling democracy assistance from the chains of capitalism. Judge, you have an ethical obligation to stand in solidarity with victims of capitalism whose rights under the social contract are continuously being violated.

  Giroux 05 (Henry, an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of. Cultural Politics.” 4.)

  …The militarizing of public...

  
  
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