Whilst sat in a dimly lit room by candle lights recently discussing Marxism, I stumbled upon the following thoughts.
The industrial revolution changed the world forever, we got new means of production and many people lost their jobs and had to learn to use new machinery and such.
Oh and by the way we are progressing, surely one day there will be machinery and AI robots which do not require people to work them. Robots will totally replace the people who perform manual labour jobs which will effectively wipe out the working class as we know it.

So I wonder what will happen then? Will it create more unemployment and poverty as a result?
Will the former working class adapt into middle class lifestyles?
Imagine if working class population would become middle class, this would be a step towards equality and communism perhaps though not as Marx predicted it.

Surely, I know this may be a little farfetched and may require a stretch of the imagination but what do you think?

I think there always will be the working class. They will just end up working harder for fear of being replaced by robots and falling into a below poverty level state. The robot idea will be off in the future a bit because it will costs lots of money to produce them. Human workers are easier to make, just leave 2 of them together long enough. Humans will always pay taxes where robots won't.

yes!