How would Marx and Ingalls have fit into contemporary debates over the transition to capitalism? This is such a vast question, you know. And they specifically zero in on how that sort of class conflict motor of history pushes these more epochal shifts from one mode of production to another. They're not saying that we need to change things or indeed that feudalism had to change to capitalism because it's nicer for people.
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