Concerns of tolerance and equality subordinate and mystify capitalism as the fundamental antagonism
Zizek, and Hanlon 99, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic and professor at the European Graduate School, Hanlon is Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts
(Slavoj and Christopher, “Psychoanalysis and the post-political,” October 5)
SZ: Right. But the point is that ...that certain concerns have disappeared.
Identity politics supplements the regular functioning of capitalism – identity formation is the process by which capitalism divides the working class to make resistance impossible. They guarantee that political demands do not elevate past the level of particularism and reaching the level of the bourgeoisie becomes their ultimate objective. Their politics cannot be a supplement to class politics, but our alternative is the only way to effectively achieve the success of their movement
Brown 93, professor of legal studies and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz
(Wendy, “Wounded Attachments,” Political Theory, Volume 21, Number 3, August, 1993)
Although this detente between universal ... bound to the explicitly politicized marking
Second, the system of capitalism has placed us on the brink of World War III. Resource
competition on a global scale has locked us into a death spiral where the interests of rival
capitalist powers will inevitably necessitate widespread war and devastation.
Socialist Equality Party 2007 <The Socialist Equality Party (US) is in political solidarity with
the International Committee of the Fourth International. The ICFI is the leadership of the world
socialist movement, the Fourth International, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. The ICFI publishes
the World Socialist Web Site.>
Socialist Strategy Needed to Oppose War and Social Inequality. http://www.wsws.org/articles/
2007/sep2007/apec-s07.shtml
This US drive for global supremacy is ... anachronistic nation-state framework.
The third impact is poverty. Poverty in society is intimately linked with capitalism through
its ‘reserve army of labor,’ which is the world’s poor. Having a market of underemployeed
individuals is a necessity to the capitalists profit accumulation.
Magdoff 2005
Harry < held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Monthly Review.> http://www.monthlyreview.org/0705magdoffs1.htm Approaching Socialism The Monthly Review Volume 57 Number 3
There is a logical connection between... wages for the lower echelons of workers.
The poverty resulting from the global capitalist system is an extremely harmful, unnoticed
form of structural violence that results in 13 to 18 millions deaths per year. Even though
our plant has enough resources and know-how to provide for each person on earth, our
economic system of distribution necessitates this form of structural violence.
Bucher 2005
Stefan <Tamkang University, Taiwan> Paper for the conference Cultures of Violence at the
University of Oxford. “Globalization and Structural Violence.”
I already indicated that structural... under the control of a single power.
Contention 3: The Solution
Our alternative we endorse is the abandonment of our belief in capitalism. Though not
ideal, rejection of docile political action within the prevailing capitalist system is the only
means to effectively solve for capitalism and poverty in the long run. Our individual
rejection has substantial transformative potential because capitalism’s existence is
sustained only by the willingness of individuals to believe in the system, and this desertion
is the first step to initiating a new socio-political reality.
Johnson 2004 Adrian <Prof Emory University> “The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the dynamics of belief” Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society”
Perhaps the absence of a detailed... decide to accept what they know.
Contention Four: Ethics
Capitalism’s strength lies in its ability to conceal its relationship with widespread systemic
violence by making its assumptions appear both natural and inevitable. As a result, our
primary ethical responsibility as decision-makers is to unmask the fact that capitalism is
built on the exclusion of a vast majority of the world’s population.
Zizek and Daly 2004
Slavoj and Glenn <Thinkers> Risking the Impossible. http://www.lacan.com/zizek-daly.htm
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut... a "glitch" in an otherwise sound matrix.
But what about the others? If nobody else goes along with this rejection, doesn’t that mean
we should default to the pragmatic approach embodied by the affirmative? Absolutely not.
True ethical actions do not rely on an external other but are rather unconditional practices
that reject problematic systems. In this way, the presentation of the affirmative provides an
element of “uniqueness” for our alternative as we should reject their “solution” which does
little more than mystify the relationship between capitalism and global exploitation.
Zizek and Daly 2004
(Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and Glyn, Senior
Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College,
Northampton, Conversations with Zizek, page 18-19)
For Zizek, a confrontation with the obscenities ... exhorts us to risk the impossible
