2011 witnessed a series of challenges to neoliberalism on a global scale perhaps not seen since the political upheavals of 1968. The uprisings were generated by a series of crises of neoliberalism and of oppressive state regimes that took different forms in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and other regions shaken by the turbulent upheavals of 2011. In this chapter, I will indicate how these global insurrections provide challenges to the dominant ideology of neoliberalism and provoke the need for activists, students, citizens, and public intellectuals to oppose the dominant common-sense ideology that market capitalism and a deregulatory state provide the best conditions for social stability and well-being. I interpret the insurrections of 2011 in part as a response to crises of neoliberalism that attempt to reconstruct society and promote democracy and social justice.