The debate around globalization is entering a new and more mature phase reflected in the fact that it is now generally accepted that we live in an era of globalization. However, the concept is used in a bewildering variety of ways. This talk will offer a distinction between generic, capitalist, and alternative globalizations. Globalization in a generic sense is too often confused with its dominant actually existing type, capitalist globalization, which undermines the emancipatory potential of alternative globalizations and generates crises of class polarization and ecological unsustainability. In response, Sklair offers some key principles of a post-capitalist alternative form of democratic socialist globalization, based on networks of sustainable consumer-producer cooperatives.