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The study of Marxism in turn began to revel a much more fruitful ideology to why behaviors were being defined as criminal, why certain groups participated in specific genres of crime, and why there was a focus on crime committed by the lower class-status. Marx believed that for any current socio-economic system to exist, it must exist because of two variables; social class and history. Historically classes emerge due to a conflict relation between groups. Marx believed that for any current political power to be sustained, it has only due to developmental factors. That is, these powers are self-supporting through what may be unconscious efforts, or the basic premise of survival. He began a deduction of these powers to determine political and/or economical correlation to class-structure including the relations. Marx defined the capitalistic societies specifically contained two classes, bourgeoisies and proletariats, owner and working class