They are about replacing the current elite with themselves, on the backs of the poor. Using the poor to do their bidding is their means to gaining power.
Ah, yep, the most accurate description so far...
Using the poor to do their bidding is their means to gaining power.
Ah, yep (again), the poor are one part of the "Useful Idiots" so necessary to Marxist's ultimate goal of gaining power.
But after power is consolidated in Marxists, the "Useful Idiots" are no longer necessary or "useful".
So the Marxists expediently kill them.