The transition to socialism/communism will occur when and only when the workers' relation to the means of production changes. The contradictions of capitalism might be apparent to many people, but there won't be a revolution until people can't afford to feed their families.
Spreading awareness won't achieve anything. The best thing to do would be to work on automation technology, because that's going to be the trigger which brings the whole capitalist system down.
The bourgeois will try to prevent this sort of thing from happening. They've turned appeasing the masses into a science.
Just watch, when things start to get really bad, we'll see UBI laws start to pass.
Or we'll all just die.
"I'm leaving forever, who's with me?"
Right, but those are a stop-gap. In the long run, capitalism cannot survive full automation. The trend will be towards something resembling communism, although it might take a very long time to get all the way there.
Some humans will survive, at least for a while. Eventually we might be completely replaced with AIs, but I'm not worried about that.
I disagree. If anything it would likely result in a "socialism" for the bourgeois while the proles are allowed to die off. Either that or we'd have a lumpen underclass surviving completely off of something akin to a welfare state which allows them to keep their purchasing power.
Machines will replaces workers far, far sooner than they will replace soldiers. When people are literally left to die, they are much easier to recruit.
It's not like society won't cling to life long enough.
Even if the proles are all dead, the surviving society will still achieve communism.
Successive generations and inheritance would dilute the wealth until it more or less evenly spread. Certainly we'd soon reach a point where nobody needed to rely on the welfare payments for basic necessities.
So me and my own gotta lay down and die so you can live in your better world?
Woop de do. Who cares if you're not going to be alive to see it?
That would only apply to the owners of the means of production (the bourgeois). Everyone else would be given just enough to scratch out a living and prevent a mass insurrection.