hi carlos, with hegemony, I personally a new broad consensus about the basic organizing principles of society, but within that, with a maximum amount of plurarchy. But if we want the deep social change associated with p2p and the commons, I don’t see how to avoid that, unless we want to stay for the rest of human history in a biosphere-destroying infinite growth system. Today, we have a particular hegemony, but within that, a certain pluralism; I expect in the future, a different ‘hegemony’, with even more pluralism. I also agree that in many ways the left-right distinctions is no longer what it was, but has it totally disappeared. Traditionally, I would say, the left thought the human being to be essentially good, with systems holding it back from its potential; while the right thought the human soul essentially evil, with systems needed to keep him in check. I would say the peer to peer approach sees the human being as tragic, a mixture of all kinds of motivations and inclinations, but nevertheless, that intelligent social systems can align and support our better sides with collective interest. In some ways, this is an integration at a higher level of both left-right principles. Nevertheless, I still believe that there will always be a distinction between people essentially defending the status quo and existing power structures and privileges, and those who still believe in human emancipation and the need to go forward towards more inclusion.