Modest pay, anti-corruption laws, recall elections, the ability to actually be held liable for crimes... These are the essence of how to run a workers' state, based on historical lessons

As I said, the point is for the people to have political power and for representatives to be reduced to administrators. The various measures that I mentioned are meant in part to take power away from representatives, because hoping for good kings instead of bad kings is useless. You must head off vectors of corruption, take away abilities that are only suitable for misuse, and make it so people aren't stuck with a conmen in office and can instead vote to remove them.