Fully Automated Luxury Communism would lead to working class genocide.
Communism failed when the monopolization of industrial and political power by a totalitarian state ended up oppressing all classes while failing to compete against industrial democracies, but the advocates of the constantly failing ideology have found a great new hope in Artificial Intelligence.
Podcasters and social media influencers are selling Gen Zers on the wonders of what they call ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’ in which most jobs will disappear and AI controlled industries will allow everyone to enjoy a guaranteed minimum income while producing everything they could desire.
Even by Communist standards, this latest incarnation of a failed ideology is a complete dead end.
Socialism at least presumed a power shift between labor and capital by leveraging the power of the working class, its postmodern stepchild assumes that it can eliminate labor entirely, turn the working class into the welfare class and yet somehow shift power to this now non-working class.
The welfare class exists and exercises a great deal of political power on behalf of socialist parties in western democracies only because they have not yet made the transition to full socialism. In truly Communist countries like the USSR, Cuba and China, a failure to work was considered ‘social parasitism’ and unacceptable because it deprived the state of the full use of its slave labor force.