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Marx saw a pattern that in his mind seem to fit the way capitalist approach their livelihood in such a way that they feel threatened by any group or person that would infringe upon his/her profits and cause undo damage to a way of life of which he/she has become accustomed. See he (Marx) saw the defensiveness that capitalist held for their materialistic holdings and values and thus came up with a theory better known as alienation. The theory of alienation was discussed previously in this paper but by Marx's standards says, the means by which alienation is created by and through the private ownership of property and other aspects or capital used to create profit and wealth from the production of goods and services. .
Such an adherence to a thought process by the capitalist makes it easy to keep laborers in their place, constantly working with, hardly ever, anything concrete in terms of materialistic value or wealth to show for it. .
Such a ponderous mountain of controlling, but not popular, opinion against laborers; they began a movement that would usher in a new era of "taking a stand" against their overpowering employers in order to gain some sort of equilibrium in the work place; which in turn, would probably make conditions better all around for workers (laborers). They did this by amassing large multi member groups working together for the betterment of all members, know as the "Union"; but when in a heated battle (negotiation or standoff) it was usually one voice of cohesion heard. In other words, the union's members usually stood together in unison. .
This was a good and effective tool until the employers (capitalist) figured out how they could use the government and its law-enforcement agencies to crush any given movement of a union. And the capitalist and government used extensive brut force which really captured the attention of the unions and in some cases effectively busted (shut down) some unions.
