Marxism was invented to destroy the west in exactly this fashion.
They knew crashing a capitalist economy to the point of revolution would be extremely difficult. In lieu of that, they took over industry and institution. They magnify differences in the multi cultural society, pitting neighbor vs neighbor. We are here now.
Marx placed no value on freedom.
This was perhaps because most Brits worked about 6 days a week and only had Sunday off, during which they were expected by their peers to attend church.