>When you really get down to it, the base/superstructure model is nearly >useless when you are doing sophisticated class analysis of societies past >or present. Right now I am taking a close look at the late 17th and early >18th century in order to understand what Leibniz stood for. David Harvey, >unfortunately, has little interest in seeing Leibniz in CONTEXT and just >holds him up as a expert on "relationism". Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)