Moten & Workers Strike Parts 1-3
This is an 9 part series on Moten and the 2021 November-December LD Topic on unconditionally recognizing the right of workers to strike.
In part 1, Nae introduces Moten on the topic. Nae starts by talking about policy vs. planning and how it would be great angle on the strikes topic. Planning is the refusal to be captured by institutions, a set of fugitive tactics that is constantly being remade, and policy is the consumption of these radical tactics by showing them as accepted. The consumption of planners and the attempt to take the radical energy away from planners through policy deradicalizes and continues antiblack colonial genocide. Nae thinks that Moten and Harney Affs on this topic might take this angle and is at the core of the resolution.
In part 2, Nae continues talking about Moten and Harney on the upcoming workers strike LD topic. Nae talks about reading Moten and Harney on the negative against policy teams and thinks it is great kritik to read on this topic because of the state recognition part of the resolution. First, Nae recommends thinking about the relationship between revolution, resistance, and the sovereign. Nae recommends watching some of the past Moten videos that we've published to get a good background on this. Your framing and thesis should focus on the way the state operationalizes or consume movements created to correct or resist the state and make it so planners will still have hope in policy. It is important in the framing debate to make arguments about how the judges decision is related to the process of planning and policy and how that affirms the viability of resistance and certain tactics.
In part 3, Nae continues to talk about reading Moten on the negative against policy teams, specifically focusing on the link, thesis, impact, and alternative portions of the debate. Nae starts by talking about applying the thesis/framing portions of the debate to the link portions of the debate and how if you win the thesis and framing for policy vs. planning you're likely to be set on the link debate. Link arguments about material gains, equity, wage gaps, and about spreading ideology to other nations to model are all great links to Moten. Nae thinks permutations won't really work against criticisms like this because of the thesis portion of the debate. At an impact level, there are really good arguments for how slow inclusion through recognition mimics the violence and structure of the state which Nae recommends turning into an inevitability argument.
