The goal is indeed to collapse the system, to foment chaos and anarchy. In the leadership vacuum that then occurs, the segment of society that desperately seeks ORDER (not neccesarily under current LAW), then is quite willing to accept the substitute MARXIST totalitarianism. And of course removal of personal firearms. Martial law by extra legal police (extra Constitutional).
Your comments also explains the “Arab Spring” - and now the leftwing al-queda terrorists are in control.