Communism always wants to control the means of production. The leftist Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis is how they plan to achieve their goal.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
That was written around 100 years ago. And you are correct.