Moten & Workers Strike Parts 4-6
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 4, Nae discusses how policy teams should answer Moten and Harney. Nae starts by going through what your priorities should be against teams reading Moten. When framing portion of the debate, you should argue that policy vs. planning doesn't allow for a cohesive distinction for what the debate should look like and how you should evaluate policy. In the context of policy, there's a not a lot of work done on whether or not policy becomes inevitable and how that might change planning's relationship to policy. On the thesis level, you should indict the current state of politics and how it relates to radical protest.
In part 5, Nae continues talking about how teams should answer Moten on the workers strike LD topic. For the framing and thesis portions of the debate, go back and watch part 4 of this series. On the link debate, it comes down the top level debate about the value of comparing the Aff to the status quo. Rather than just saying it links to the status quo, Nae recommends using specific examples of specific groups that have been able to exert themselves politically. Without recognition, there isn't a way to think about a non-militant response from the state. If you want to use a permutation, these link examples are necessary to win net benefits to the perm.
In part 6, Nae talks about Moten and Harney as an affirmative strategy on the topic. At a method level, Nae thinks you could talk about an angle about why Marxism and the subject capacity of the worker is a bad place to theorize off of in relation to Moten and Harney as well as prisons, abolition, and military preservation. The way in which Marxism registers blackness and its relation to objectivity and how Marxism as a theory requires a one to one relationship with the sovereign. State subsumption of the resistance under the banner of workers strike is what allows the state to commit hegemony violence on other movements and continue this violent cycle. Nae gives some tips for how to answer the crackdown DA that he thinks a lot of policy teams will read against this type of affirmative. Nae finished by talking about Framework and T and recommends going further to the left.
