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In addition to the changing structure of production relationships that Anderson deals with with, you'd also have to deal with gender relations, the transformation of ideology and religious beliefs, the splintering of languages, etc. etc. You might think that all of those are merely emergent phenomena of basal class relationships. I don't.
Actually, I think that base-superstructure Marxism is not Marxism at all. If you prefer arguing with straw men, be my guest. It is the same thing that Stan did when he characterized Marx as imagining "industrial utopias". This is a caricature of Marx. Furthermore, if there is anything that can be said about Perry Anderson, it is that he does not engage in crude base-superstructure constructions.
