ABSTRACT
Starting with a critical review of sociological perspectives in describing the NSMs, the previous chapter drew on a collection of discursive facts in the GJM to sustain the argument. Unlike the alter-globalist and anti-globalist visions, the alter-globalization view in the GJM:
1 does no longer see any intrinsic contradiction between the soft praxis and hard praxis and their associated intellectual dichotomies;
2 transcends the incompatible conceptions of social differentiations by justifying a flexible solidarity based on a collaborative inclusion of the Other into the definition of “Self,” and by cutting across the socially constructed polarities around gender, race, class, social status, ethnicity, nationality and so on;
3 comprehends the complexity of globalization, and the world system in terms of its unevenness, contradictions and multidimensionality.
