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COVID-19 and the new global chaos

As a result of the struggles we are facing, a global movement is needed to challenge the directions of this new alter-globalization moment. Only through this can we move from destructive globalization to a “pluriverse” one.

COVID-19 and the new global chaos
National strike in Colombia: a person cuts off traffic to protest against the government of President Ivan Duque, on June 15, 2020 in Bogotá
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We are living in a moment of global chaos. Chaos does not mean the complete absence of some kind of order, but suggests a level of turbulence, fragility and contemporary geopolitical uncertainty in the face of multiple "global risks" and possible destinations.

Unpredictability and instability become the norm. This refers not only to greater volatility in the face of threats, but also to the very dynamics of political forces and contemporary capitalism.

The world order that emerged with the fall of the Berlin Wall and sought to expand formal democracy in the world (despite how often the major powers destabilized and interrupted it whenever they thought it was necessary) hand in hand with neoliberal globalization, in a kind of "global social-liberalism".