Since Marx we have made tremendous strides in technology and have wealth gaps reminiscent of the industrial revolution. It is now easier than ever to imagine a world of corporate states (think Cyberpunk) with totalitarian control over their indentured workforce. With a large indentured workforce at hand, I find it unreasonable to dismiss the idea, that such corporations would not create a command based internal economy, because starving and de-stratifying their own workforce would play into the Marxian prophecy of capitalism's downfall (a workforce too poor to consume their employers products, thus rendering capital worthless).
Do you think, that the Marxian dialectic of class struggle would still hold up in such a scenario, meaning that the upper class controlling these corporations/corporate states would still be overthrown by the lower class due to an inherent trait of their power base?
Or do you think this is more akin to a return to a pre-capitalist mode of production in form of a slave-owning system?