Angelus:
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.
All? You mean those debates between Rosa Luxemburg and Edward Bernstein didn't happen?
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.
I am happy to see you backpedal from a rather extreme position.
