Dear Erik,
I was so consumed by writing one text for several months and an illness in between, that I have not seen your comment until this very moment, when I decided to remind all session participants on the existence of this forum.
I am grateful on your most pertinent question. I wrote my abstract when I knew practically nothing about the World Social Forum and the debate whether it should be understood strictly as the space for discussion of various social movements, or it could be understood as well as a social movement of movements in its own right. I worded the abstract without real content and implications of Wollerstein's view of the WSF knowing that I still have to learn a lot before finalizing the paper.
Wollerstein is one of the authors who contributed to understanding of the modern world as the dynamic system of global capitalist economy, with its inner contradictions leading to cyclical crises and wars. In this sense, anti systemic movements are also anti-capitalist movements. Reading Wollerstein's comments I have got the impression that WSF is imagined as an alternative to World Economic Forum, whose actors quite seriously plans how to continue to exploit and oppress 99% of the world.
Russian revolution and its aftermath seam to scare many people of thinking in anti capitalist terms. True revolutionary situations when the mass of exploited do not want to live in the same way any more, and when ruling classes are not able to rule as they are doing, to this day have been very rare, but they arise from time to time. In order to make a step forward in human history towards more just and equitable world order there must be some kind of preparation and organization.
Former socialist, Robert Michels, however, cleverly concluded that the organization leads to oligarchy. Is it the reason enough to do nothing until capitalist accumulation of capital for the sake of accumulation destroys the planet?