Capitalist culture has created large scale production, factories, railways, the postal service, telephones, etc., and on this basis the great majority of functions of the old 'state power' have become so simplified and can be reduced to such simple operations of registration, filing and checking that they can be easily performed by every literate person, and it will be possible to perform them for 'workmen's wages,' which circumstances can (and must) strip those functions of every shadow of privilege, of every semblance of 'official grandeur.'