Place the steps of the crisis of capitalism Marx predicted in order, from first to last. Start by clicking the first item in the sequence or dragging it here The number of bourgeoisie would shrink. The proletariat would acquire class consciousness and rise up against the bourgeoisie. Financial institutions would crash when the proletariat defaulted on their debt. The bourgeoisie set up systems allowing them to extract wealth from the proletariat's labor. The proletariat would grow poor and need loans to purchase goods from the bourgeoisie