This is a connection between Marx's views and Durkheim's. Marx said that the proletariat gained strength against the bourgeois once they found connections with each other. When the workers were alienated and isolated they had no chance of advancing or rising against the ruling class. They first had to join together, forming trade unions before they could overthrow the ruling class. Similarly to this, Durkheim claims that people become connected by their reliance on each other in society. They all survive by helping each other like how the proletariats only escaped alienation and disillusionment once they joined together.