--- Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Actually, I think that base-superstructure Marxism
> is not Marxism at
> all.

I'm glad you don't adhere to base-superstructure
models.  Nevertheless, you must admit that such
notions were widely prevalent in the historical
workers movement, especially in the classical German
Social Democracy which constituted the blueprint for
all Marxism to come.


> Furthermore, if
> there is anything that can be said about Perry
> Anderson, it is that
> he does not engage in crude base-superstructure
> constructions.

I'm not saying that Anderson engages in crude
base-superstructure constructions.  I am saying that
an analysis of shifting class relations of the sort
Anderson provides, while useful and enlightening, is
not sufficient for grasping such a big, broad notion
like the transition from antiquity to feudalism.





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