I came either to destroy the system or die trying.
"The fact is that we can't destroy the international financial system," he said this month.
It means "let's destroy the system of domestic government created over the past 60 years."
It has to do with destroying the system so they can get back to previous times, perhaps the 1960's.
The admiral, on the other hand, wanted to destroy the system and replace it with his own.
Of course this process might be indefinitely continued without destroying the original system.
"It's destroying the system to bring everyone down to the least common denominator."
It is set 800 years after the rise of a movement which tried to destroy the capitalist system and build a new, better world.
Climate change threatens to completely destroy our whole economic system.
Even a slight disturbance to the balance could destroy the system.