Re: Free Will (or Free Willy)

let's not confuse hegemonic transitions within the
temporality of the capitalist world-economy with
hypothesized transition from that system to some 
different future one.  arrighi talks primarily about
the chaos accompanying the first kind, while wallerastein
talks (lately, at least) primarily about the second,
which he claims is the kind that multiplies the
arena for consequential choice & agency.  

both transitioins may be occurring innthe present,
the former presumably of shorter duration than the
latter, butalso affected by the latter in ways that
prior within-system hegemonic transitions have not 
been.

w goldfrank