Administrators absolutely have privledges, even within socialism, that can and are abused. This, however, is not enough to designate them a class. The primacy of class analysis is not in how abusable a position is, but instead the actual class interests and relations a class has with others. In the Marxist view of class, the upper class in a given society exploits the lower class, and exploitation specifically relates to the economic control of the surplus created by the lower class.

This has profound implications when it comes to administration. Marxists understand that mental labor is still socially necessary, and this includes administrative labor. Administration is therefore a job, not a class. The form of class of administration therefore depends on how this group actually gains their means of life, through wages, or through exploitation?

In socialism, administrators receive their pay through wages, not through deploying capital through an M-C-M’ circuit. This is not a mere technicality, it’s the entire basis of shared, collective class interest. This does not mean administrators are infallible, corruption definitely exists, and it is easier to be corrupt with an administrative position, but because it does not form its own class it does not actually make any sense to abolish this job position, as it is socially necessary for expanded production and distribution, which forms the basis for lowering working hours and educating the entire working class to a far greater and more equalized level of participation in society.