Democratic republic Puns

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We often see many members of the Democrat Party wax poetically about “American democracy” and how it’s constantly under attack- from Facebook, or Russia, or the Republicans, or white supremacy, or my dick. In State and Revolution, Lenin writes of the source and cause of this petty moralism from the lapdogs of capital who wear trans pride lapels along with their American flag lapels

>…But it was necessary to touch briefly on here once more some of its features, because in Germany particularly the superstitious belief in the state has passed from philosophy into the general consciousness of the bourgeoise and even of many workers. According to the philosophical conception, the state is the ‘realization of the idea’ of the Kingdom of God on Earth, translated into philosophical terms, the sphere in which eternal truth and justice are, or should be, realized. And from this follows a superstitious reverence for the state and everything connected with it, which takes root the more readily since people are accustomed from childhood to imagine the the affairs and interests common to society could not be looked after other than as they have been looked after in the past, that is, through the state and it’s lucratively positioned officials. And people think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than the monarchy

I have read before that one of the main problems facing the DRA was that most of the country was still rural and didn't support the socialist government. I have also heard that they were more of a "Soviet puppet". What does it take to construct socialism in a country like Afghanistan?

They are similar, right ?