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Firstly, we would like to start with several axioms that we must hold true throughout this debate. Axiom One: A Communist State is an oxymoron Axiom Two: The USSR and the People’s Republic of China is not a Communist Society Axiom Three: Monetary Values in a Communist Society is non-existent With these axioms defined, we shall move on to establishing the common postulates of this debate. Postulate One: That Industrial Output Capacity has been positively influenced by Heavy Capital This postulate needs no defense; it is almost a truism. Due to the Industrial Revolution, there has been a huge increase in Industrial Output in all industries. The Russian Coal Industry has experienced one of these huge boosts from 1866 to 1902, in which, in 1866, 26 million tons of coal was produced; in 1902, 1005 tons of coal was produced. Postulate Two: With the Increase in Heavy Capital Supply, Heavy Capital can be cheaper to make This postulate is based upon the supply-demand theory; when someone introduces more of the same product into the same market, the price for that product reduces. Postulate Three: Modern Machinery is still increasing Industrial Capacity Output Modern machinery, more advanced than the machines of the 1800s, can increase Capital Outputs dramatically; accordingly, countries with higher equipment share scores has been shown to have higher TFP growth than other countries with fewer equipment share scores. Botswana has a 0.15 equipment share score, yet it has one of the highest TFP scores. Apart from this, from June 2006 to June 2013, rates of production doubled in China and also grew 64.9% in “developing Asia”. Modern machinery is clearly helping the workforce of these countries produce more capital in order to satisfy the world market. With this said, I shall move onto my arguments. 1R1AC: On Manual Labor The workingman is on the tethers of starvation; he works everyday, is alienated from his product, and yet he is paid horribly less. In fact, from a $100 dollar Nike Shoe, only 0.04$ of the profits made is given to the worker; manual labor is paid slavery. But we are now presented with a dilemma; what if manual labor was no longer needed? As it is clear from postulate one and three, machinery-based capital outputs is increasing. There is almost no doubt of this; it is increasing at such a high rate that human manual labor is not needed. Under capitalism, accordingly to Marx, workers are turned into objects that the capital uses in order to obtain their resources. However, imagine if all workers were replaced by automated machines; these automated machines would be two things. (1) It would be both more efficient in creating capital for the market, and (2) it would be much cheaper than hiring a group of people to do it. With this being said, it would be correctly proven that soon, heavy machinery will overtake manual production of labor, and when this happens, soon the communist society will be achieved. Why? Because manual labor is the labor that creates class inequality. Class inequality persists because manual labor persists; the capitalist society is just a bridge between us, and communism. There have been three developments in society now; the slave society, in which the aristocracy was created, the feudal society which created the capitalists, and the capitalists which created the proletariat. Under slave society, the aristocracy took control and created feudalism; under feudalism, the merchants took control and created capitalism. Capitalism, in this case, has created the proletariat and the proletariat shall lead the overthrow of the capitalist arrangement; however, this argument is based upon the fact that humans go through a cycle of differing systems; these systems are made possible by drastic human changes (slave-feudal transition made possible by power, feudal-capitalist transition made possible by money), and the change here is the Industrial Revolution, as the Industrial Revolution has led to the possible abandonment of manual labor. 1R2AC: On the Proletariat Accordingly to Eric Hobsbwah, “the proletariat is a class created by the capitalist system, and this class will lead to the destruction of capitalism” Accordingly to the last paragraph, the stages of human society development is based on the needs for resources and the struggle between classes. The need for power led the aristocracy, which soon led to feudalism. Feudalism, due to the invention and creation of money, and the enforcement of it, created a class of money mongers, in which we called capitalists. These capitalists soon led to the next change of society; capitalism. Capitalism developed due to the fact that money was the basis of all societies, and merchants knew how to use this around the best. The factor that led to the transition to feudal power was power; feudal to capitalist money; capitalism to communism capital. Whoever controls the production of the capital will lead the world into a new stage of socioeconomic and political development. And the people who control that are the proletariat. [1] It is clear that capitalism has done two things to the proletariat; (1) the proletariat was disciplined by the very capitalist arrangement that enslaved them, and (2) the capitalist arrangement intended to preserve the current system will be soon overthrown by the fact that control of the means of production are reducing. This is supported by the mere fact that the proletariat is increasing, and increasing fast. With this said, it is soon to be known that soon the whole world will be of one class; of the proletariat. Under the society of the proletariat, there will be several changes; the proletariat will shake off the several yokes that have enslaved them; money, private property, and class. In the proletariat community, money will be abolished; this is seemingly improbable in the future, but this is not an impossible expression. Mindset comes before action; humans are adopting a very anti-capitalist expression in their environmental awareness. With this mindset, one would soon see that money might, or would be abolished. Under the proletariat arrangement, class will be abolished; this is already happening. Accordingly, social inequality has been decreasing since 2000, and albeit it is still at a high level. But the most important factor is this property analogy; albeit it has been strawman-ed by many anti-communists, private property is land and natural resources; resources that belong to the society. This is made sure by the fact that in countries like China, the public sector is larger than the private sector. [3] Taking this into account, we must argue that economically, from both previous cases, we are heading towards a period of communism, a very huge change, in which the proletariat shall lead a change that humanity will forever remember! 1R4AC: On the State As a Left-Hegelian, Marx believed in an idea of freedom that is mixed in with his hard-anti capitalist rhetoric. Hegel was a German philosopher who theorized in the fields of freedom. Accordingly to Hegel, freedom was achieved only when self-consciousness has been achieved. Marx included this into his anti-Capitalist rhetoric, adding that once workers are self-conscious about their struggle, they will prevail in the “capitalist-worker” fight. Freedom is necessary for stability and justice; but when are humans in a state of freedom? [2] Humans are in freedom, accordingly to Hobbes, when human have the complete liberty to do anything. We are working towards this; the state has degenerated from an absolute one to a more anarchic one. Soon, as economic conditions (of 1R1AC) get better, the state will no longer need. This argument shall be explained thoroughly during the next round. THE RESOLUTION IS NEGATED Sources: [1] The Communist Manifesto-Karl Marx [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://www.inequalitywatch.eu...