In today's globalized world, the historical appeal to the "struggle for the right" is combined as a struggle for rights. An undeniable need for rights manifests everywhere, defying any form of repression. They are no longer just rights that extract their strength from a formalization or recognition from above, but rights that germinate in the materiality of situations outside the usual institutional environments, in places around the world that are "occupied" by men and women who demand respect for their dignity and for their humanity.

This new call to fundamental rights supposes a mutation in the nature of citizenship. New modalities of action and new actors are opposed to the supposed natural law of the market and to its pretension to incorporate and define the conditions for the recognition of rights. The "right to have rights" thus constructs a different way of understanding universalism, making the same language speak to people who are far apart from each other and setting in motion a revolution of the commons.