These elements in themselves were incapable of breaking the fetters of the existing mode of production . A revolutionary upheaval was necessary to destroy the slave - owning formation - the state and superstructure that were holding back the development of feudal relations . The Roman state was constantly shaken by popular upris ings . The revolutionary actions of the masses and the con quered peoples did much to urdermine the might of the Roman Empire , but they were incapable of crushing it com pletely . In the end , the combined blows of uprisings and attacking German and Slay tribes brought about the fad ] of the Western Roman Empire and the slave system and helped strengthen the emerging feudal relations .
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