The workers, having conquered political power, will smash the old bureaucratic apparatus, they will shatter it to its very foundations, they will not leave a single stone of it standing; and they will put in its place a new one consisting of workers and office employees, against whose transformation into bureaucrats measures will at once be taken, as Marx and Engels pointed out in detail: not only election, but also recall at any time; payment no higher than that of ordinary workers; immediate introduction of control and superintendence by all, so that all shall become 'bureaucrats' for a time