the major theme in the robot series is the conflict between automation (and what cynical contemporary reactionaries refer to as fully automated luxury communism) and a caricature of the pushback of labour against it.

this breaks the marxist narrative, which is supposed to have the proletariat be in favour of automation, because it frees workers from drudgery. 

but, it's fundamentally a marxist argument - a pure, literal marxist argument.

and, he was more right than marx was. right?