This article presents the concept that Boaventura de Sousa has about the actual time, identified as the globalization. Opposing the notion of this term, in the first part of the text it is presented the arguments of this author that questions the globalization with its notion of "globalizations". The second part, tries to deepen in the notion of Boaventura about the globalization as a political option, and not as a historical inexorab. In conclusion, it is highlighted the fight for the emancipation as praxis of the cons-hegemonic globalization, with hopes to construct alternatives that assures the human dignity in this reality run by the interest and necessity of the capital.2026113126