Its purpose is to help explain how the capitalist mode of production came into being.
Major changes occur in the mode of production, superstructure and their relationship to nature.
First, slavery existed throughout China's history but was never the primary mode of production.
It's also a good case study of who does what in this mode of production.
Capital is no longer the invisible center determining the mode of production.
Thus, ideology permits the mode of production to reproduce itself.
The mode of production is based on the level of the productive forces.
Although the product is the same, the modes of production are separate.
New productive forces will cause conflict in the current mode of production.
Old and new modes of production might combine to form a hybrid economy.