(p. 474) Marx captures the continuum
             of events 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
             ...