ABSTRACT
The revolutions of the twenty-first century will not resemble those of the twentieth, and that could be a very good thing. It is likely that those who will have the most chance of successfully transforming the world in the direction of positive radical social change will do so through the creative elaboration of more horizontalist, less violent kinds of coalitions/networks/alliances as their vehicles for coming to power. This chapter briefly surveys relatively recent or current movements that trend in this direction and make the argument that what is needed to transform global societies is the emergence of new kinds of parties that come out of and are more tightly coupled with diverse social movements than in the past. Using the United States as a case, I briefly speculate on how a future scenario of this type might unfold. The second half of the chapter explores new ways of thinking about and designing social relations that are emerging in both the global North (degrowth, ecosocialism) and global South (buen vivir, the rights of nature) as allied visions in the making for a global transition away from capitalism toward a better future.
