On one hand, we cannot make it mean something totally outside the cloud of public meanings. On the other hand, we can examine the facts and sharpen the named notion in a way that gets to key issues of struggle.
Globalization is about what is happening to economies on a world scale.
Furthermore, the economic relations of globalization are fundamentally about big capitals of the developed countries that operate around the world. However, this economic division existed for over a century, while globalization arose in the last one or several decades.