Bureaucracies aren't "means or production"? It's the rough equivalent of Lenin capturing railroads and other key infrastructure.
Adding on to this: there is no rough equivalent to Lenin capturing the railroads in the USA, at all. The bourgeoise have controlled the means of production from 1776 til now.
Who owns amazon fulfillment centers? Who owns media companies? Who owns airlines? If it ain't the workers, then nobody has seized the means of production.
Railroads and infrastructure are the means of production because they're the material things that are required to produce other material things.