Karl Marx believed that class conflict was inevitable because Capitalism continually shrinks the remaining classes available the number of people who are more affluent become less in number, and at the expense of that, the people who become poorer become greater in number. The "middle class", Karl Marx writes, "is swamped in the competition with the large Capitalists". Due to the incident that the number of people who become poorer becomes greater in number, they as a whole gain a collective consciousness of their economic wellbeing. What first began as a strike in a local region, then expounds itself into a combining of the labour force on a national level, and later on to a regional~continental level, and then eventually onto a continental