I live in Argentina, where so many factories were abandoned in our 2001 crisis that workers decided to re-open many of them. Would American workers have it in them if there were a serious liquidity crisis?
Beyond that for most people in a capitalist system, the basic process was one of commodity > money > commodity. Meaning that people made stuff to earn money, to buy more stuff.
But for the capitalists instead it was money > commodity > money+. Putting money into the production of stuff so as to earn even more money on sales.
Now where Marx went off the rails was with factory machines. He was sadly working under the preconception that workers were being exploited, and so ended up badly muddling the impact machinery has on the value definition.
Asian real estate tycoons would own the area before the workers could pronounce "transpacific capital monitoring". much less before they were told factory was being shut down.