I think full automation where human labour is non-economic is a case where all democracy is communist but not vice versa (there's nothing preventing a repeat of communist dictatorships we've already seen): The state owns the means of production, the people tell the state what to make.
Given how powerful full automation is, owning that capacity is close enough to being equivalent to a state today, so private companies would become states basically by default (Workers? What workers? These robots just produce stuff for the shareholders); and also we could get anarcho-communism if normal people get to own their own personal Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti, which can happen very easily because all it takes is one person who thinks that's a good idea and log2(human population) self-replications of the RUR to give everyone their own personal robot.
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I think full automation where human labour is non-economic is a case where all democracy is communist but not vice versa (there's nothing preventing a repeat of communist dictatorships we've already seen): The state owns the means of production, the people tell the state what to make.
Given how powerful full automation is, owning that capacity is close enough to being equivalent to a state today, so private companies would become states basically by default (Workers? What workers? These robots just produce stuff for the shareholders); and also we could get anarcho-communism if normal people get to own their own personal Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti, which can happen very easily because all it takes is one person who thinks that's a good idea and log2(human population) self-replications of the RUR to give everyone their own personal robot.