Interpretation ---weigh the plan and perm's fiated implications against a competitive and legitimate alt
---non-governmental fiated alternatives are unfair---fairness is the only impact AND inferior clash makes critical research useless
---perms are key to test competition, prevent utopian counterplans, and check single and multi-actor fiat alternatives
---debating a hypothetical movement by a group that doesn’t exist is bad ground
Uniqueness
Non Unique
2AC -- NonUnique
Capitalism is Non-Unique - systems of abuse and exploitation were always present throughout history
Velden ’21 [John van der and Rob White; 2017; Leader of Global Sales & Technology at Linde Engineering, former Vice President of Business development at Chicago Bridge and Iron company, former researcher at Unilever; The extinction curve : growth and globalisation in the climate endgame, “THE EXTINCTION CODE WITHIN THE CAPITALIST GROWTH PROTOCOL,” Ch. 3, p. 34] SPark
Also a factor is (possibly convenient) superficial universals relating to class structure, inequality and ecological degradation across previous historical periods and forms of economic organisation (from the ancient Holocene world through to post-capitalist Stalinisation). After all, why focus on capitalism as the primary problem when exploitation and ecological degradation have been features of our entire human history and across different forms of socio-economic organisation? The refrains are familiar: ‘Just look at the ecological catastrophes of the old Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China’! ‘Humans have always treated the planet instrumentally’! Such cries are not uncommon in both extended commentaries and short catchy tweets. In either case, our view is that the claims are simplistic and politically missthe main point, deliberately or otherwise
