> Well, Marx analyzed capitalism at a very high level of abstraction: His
> aim, after all, was to identify those features of ccapitalism which
> would characterize _any_ particular form it might assume.
I would say that was a secondary concern. Not even that, actually. I don't think he wanted to anticipate forms it might assume, as that would be soothsaying and a kind of return to idealism. Marx analyzed at a very high level of abstraction because capitalism is very highly abstract. That seems pretty simple.