We are witnessing today the return of a new theory and practice of revolution. In its early stages of development and far from homogeneous in character, this new theory encompasses the growing belief not only that ‘another world is possible’ beyond capitalism, but that it ‘must be made’ in such a way that the mistakes of previous revolutionary efforts are not repeated: the capture of the state, the representation of the party or the privileged knowledge of the vanguard. Philosophically, I have argued we can see this new shift in Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of historical topology, constructive deterritorialisation, political consistency and nomadic solidarity. Politically, I have argued we can see this alternative at work in the Zapatistas' use of a multi-centred diagnostic of suffering, in their creation of the Juntas de Buen Gobierno, in their leading by obeying and in their practice of mutual global solidarity.

But Deleuze, Guattari and the Zapatistas are neither models for how all revolutions should proceed nor representations of how they are all actually proceeding. Rather, they are only two particularly fecund sources for the emergence of four unique and influential strategies active in revolutionary politics today. What I have argued in this book is that Deleuze, Guattari and the Zapatistas have created several conceptual/practical strategies that are both indicative of and useful for the further creation of a new theory and practice of revolution that is no longer subordinated to the processes of political representation or their mere critique by a speculative leftism based on difference and potentiality.