ts leading to the state of modern industry by writing ""the place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place of the industrial middle class, by industrial millionaires, ... the modern bourgeoisie."" He is able to explain this transition from feudalism to capitalism by noting that classes in society have objectively opposed interests over the
             direction of change, and this class struggle determines the course of history by altering the mode of production. Marx explains that this class conflict is eternal but often hidden by stating ""the history of hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, ... lord and serf ... in a word oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight."" (p. 473)
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