For Marx, then, the basic unit of concern was the class. As he saw it, the working class was oppressed; it was made to give up its members’ labor to feed the rich capitalist class. This was wrong, he said, because the working class was numerically much larger than the capitalist class and their oppression bred great misery. Therefore, the working class should take over control of the government and the government should take over industry, so that the workers, through their government, would control the industries in
which they worked. This would ensure fair treatment for everyone.