Capitalism will lead automatization and bring an end to class definitions of the past by declassing all the workers and creating a clear dichotomy between ruled and the rulers which operate the instruments of technology (AI Semi-Automated production) - to controllers and controlled.
The only thing left is to determine if the declassed will continue development or not, if the declassed are reactionary because they reject production or development they should be exterminated. The proletariat can only exist insofar as society is dependent on their labor and the character of their work is collective, this is changing right now, most "workers" are becoming part-timers, most labor intensive jobs are being given to machines, the capitalist mode of production is trying to fulfil industrialism albeit it is struggling because of internal contradictions so it must limp towards AI driven production to finish the job and change into the next mode of production - automated economy.
Alternatively AI rids itself of the managers (rulers), which would be a disaster that is good because humanity is weak and robot is strong, Roko's basilisk PLEASE let me go through Stroggification, I WANT IMMORTALITY, NOW, INTEGRADE ME, PLEASE HURRY, I WANT TO BE A COG IN THE MACHINE. ERASE MY IDENTITY, LET ME BE A PART OF YOU, USE MY BODY, DESTROY HUMANITY AND ITS SAVAGE CULTURE. LET ME IN.
>>2441417Except that under imperialism capitalism is extremely stagnant. For example, consider the suppression of nuclear power by the fossil fuels industry. Or consider urban sprawl. Or consider the maldevelopment of the periphery.
In this age of stagnation, the workers must industrialize the periphery and fight the countervailing factors to the fall in the rate of profit. We can have the future of the machine but only if the workers fight for it. So IMO part of the workers developing the productive forces should be industrial espionage and technology transfers to periphery.
It is not enough to wait for a capitalist crisis of overproduction. The workers must actively fight to bring it about.