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**Plan: The United States federal government should guarantee universal full employment to all persons living in poverty in the United States. We can clarify**
= **__Contention One: Politics__** = == **The demand for universal employment ruptures the ideology of capital by adhering to a utopian ideal that has been dismissed by the system as impossible – the central question of poverty is necessary because it accesses a central sense of repression, guilt and anxiety within the system of economic rationality** == **Jameson** Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke **2004** Fredric New Left Review 25 p 37-39 Marx’s anti-humanism, then… in bourgeois and introspective ways. == **The affirmative creates the space necessary for politics by using a universal gesture to expose the exclusions and violence created by democratic systems - our demand for employment stands for more then just a call to reduce poverty - it creates a particular call that can be written onto the universal struggle against capital** == **Dean,** Associate Professor of Political Theory at Hobart & William Smith, **2005** Jodi, Zizek against Democracy, jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/ files/zizek_against_ democracy_new_version.doc I’ve argued thus far that Zizek … even as there is no ‘itself’ absent this ‘beyond’) == **The violence of capital, manifest often as poverty, has always been set aside in favor of focusing on subjective flashpoint instances of violence – this creates a stop-gap in thought which makes it impossible to address the root cause of all violence – voting affirmative in the face of crisis is necessary to resist the violence we outline in the 1AC** == **Zizek 2008** Slavoj Violence p 1-4  If there is a unifying thesis that runs …a distance out of respect towards its victims. == **Our affirmative precedes the impacts that the negative will advance – the system of capital produces the material realities which make violence inevitable – voting affirmative denounces our previously simplistic understandings of violence in favor of an ethic which exposes the inner workings of the systems that produce their impacts** == **Zizek 2008** Slavoj Violence p 11-12 There is an old joke about … what matters is the situation of capital...

**The system of capital makes social exclusion on a global scale inevitable – the utmost ethico-political responsibility is to reject this system of economic evaluation**
**Zizek and Daly 2k4** (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16) For Zizek it is imperative … otherwise sound matrix. = **__The system of capital makes all action outside its confines seem impossible—only an impossible act can break free from the subversion present in the system today__** = **Zizek and Daly 2k4** (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 18-19) For Zizek, a confrontation exhorts us to risk the impossible.

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**__Contention Two: Universally Demanding__**
== **The paralysis inherent within institutional politics is the reason the aff is a strategic demand – it creates a rupture – powerless and meaningless reform necessitates the utopian imagination of the plan** == **Jameson** Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke **2004** Fredric New Left Review 25 p 43-46 How should we then formulate … those other conventional slogans. == **The plan stands in opposition to the exclusions created by the compromise inherent within liberal democracy – highlighting those living in poverty is a universal form of politics – this is key to prevent the extermination of subjectivity** == **Zizek 2009** Slavoj New Left Review n57pg 53-55 What one should add … is to act preventively. == **Acceptance of the neutrality of the economy dooms all progressive politics – the affirmative confrontation with the inequality and exclusion of economic systems is a necessary prerequisite to any universal politics** == **Zizek 1999** The Ticklish Subject, page 352-355 The big news of today’s post-political age… that effectively runs his life. = **__Contention Three: Pre-empts__** =

**The circulation of knowledge is a key byproduct of capital**
**Schiwy,** PhD Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke, **& Ennis,** PhD Candidate in Lit at Duke, **2002** Freya and Michael, Nepantla: Views from the South 3.1 project muse Our third topic was … the production of knowledge? 123B **The capitalist system drives hegemonic imperialism and military aggression as a solution to its flaws** **Meszaros 07** (Istvan, April, “The Only Viable Economy”, The Monthly Review, Emeritus Professor at University of Sussex, Former Chair of Philosophy at University of Sussex) The quixotic advocacy of…hypocritical concern over "the Predicament of Mankind."