Practice, organizational form and the production of alternative visions

What kind of practice and what sorts of organizational forms might be conducive to incubating an alternative vision that will enable human society to outwit the destructive logic of global neoliberal capitalist accumulation?   

The character of the incubators will be driven in part be the hurdles that an alternative vision must surmount.  To challenge the ideological hegemony of global neo-liberal capitalism an alternative vision must unify two apparently contradictory propositions.  First, an alternative vision must convince billions of people living in the most disparate circumstances around the world that they share interests that can become the basis of a common political agenda .  This universalistic agenda must be accompanied by a clear commitment to respectful recognition of the full diversity of identities that have emerged from disparate circumstances and histories.   The first requires the broadest possible networks of debate and synthetic capacity. The second requires a multiplicity of rootedness in dispersed sites of contestation. 

Drawing on the cornucopia of concrete movements and organizations that have succeeded in transcending national borders and the North-South divide, in braiding together diverse constituencies, and in operating at multiple levels from the local through the national to the global, this paper seeks to sketch out the organizational forms and discursive strategies associated with an emerging composite vision of counter-hegemonic globalization.