This fully automated luxury may, one day, come. But not in my lifetime and probably not that of anyone currently alive.

But why would such a system be communist? A system of government and a system of economic control that utterly failed to improve the lot of those poor souls who fell under its tender mercies, was only a hindrance on the road to this utopia.

Such a system, if it came about, only has a chance of doing so under capitalism.

So why not call it post-capitalism? Such a system is the ultimate destination of capitalism just as the gulag is the ultimate destination of communism.

I think it was Assimov (don't hold me to that) who wrote about a world where mankind had learned to manipulate matter at an atomic level and at an acceptable cost. He fantasised about every home having a device where whatever you wanted could be created by simply rearranging atoms. Put enough waste material in and then have the atoms rearranged to make whatever you want. A 3D printer on steroids. The point of his discussion was to examine a society where the overriding issues was no longer how to distribute scarce resources.

None of our current systems would be appropriate to such a world. And entirely new understand of society and the human adventure would need to be invented. But it will only come about due to the victory of capitalism.

If value from human work is zero then resources can be allocated without cost. Minerals are mined , processed into machines and deliver products ( bread , meat, CDs , ambulance and virtual doc) to your door, free . Gold toilet seats as Lenin wanted (no good in Russian winters). US can take out China and Iran by nuke program, recalled at the last minute and feel great again. All pollies are honest, police are CCTV drone law-enforced enforcers and program-writers are deleted as they become corrupted.