Darializa Avila Chevalier, the winner of the Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District in New York, is not only full of anti-Israel animus that is scarcely distinguishable from antisemitism, but she is a Communist in the full sense of the word. She admires Marx, Lenin, and even J. V. Stalin, whose Collected Works she complains — falsely — have been banned in this country. She posted about all this on a Twitter account that has since been deleted, but its contents were recently retrieved. More on Comrade Chevalier can found here: “Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism,” by
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.
Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student whose victory sent shockwaves throughout the Democratic establishment, has been under fire for a since-deleted Twitter account, previously reported by CNN, that included phrases such as “seize the means of production,” along with calls to abolish police, prisons and borders. Other controversial tweets include one that said Black and Arab men are both “Fetishizing ugly colonizer women” and another that described wiping her dirty hands on the American flag in lieu of a napkin.
As an undergraduate, Avila Chevalier attended Columbia University, where she organized with Students for Justice in Palestine, and after graduation became involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. She also attended a controversial October 8, 2023, pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square — one day after Hamas’ attack on Israel — that featured speeches and rhetoric praising the attack.
On October 8, 2023, exactly one day after Hamas smashed into Israel from Gaza, and its operatives raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered 1,200 Israelis, Darializa Aviva Chevalier attended a rally held in Times Square not to express sympathy for the victims, but to praise those who committed those atrocities.
She previously told CNN, “I have grown considerably in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future.”
She doesn’t denounce her previous postings on her Twitter/X account, but simply says, by way of defense, that “I have grown considerably since those tweets,” without offering a single example of what we are supposed to assume she no longer believes.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump accused Avila Chevalier of being a communist, a charge that she said she wouldn’t respond to while on MSNOW, saying, “I won’t be reactive.”
Trump often makes wild charges, but he was not wrong in calling Avila Chevalier a “communist.” This is no exaggeration, but a statement of fact.
A further review of Avila Chevalier’s archived Twitter account from 2020-2022 found repeated references to communism and Marxist ideology. The account, “Darializabonet,” appears to have been deleted in June 2022.
The account’s bio read in 2020, “how communist of you.” Archived posts and retweets during this timeframe included a recommendation that Karl Marx’s Capital was an “essential must-read,” a complaint that public libraries did not carry enough Marxist literature by Lenin and other revolutionary writers, and a retweet from a Communist-identifying account lamenting that bookstore “banned books” displays did not include The Complete Works of J. V. Stalin….
Yes, Chevalier was dismayed that the “banned book” displays in bookstores — designed to elicit indignation that such splendid works were being banned — did not include the works of that homicidal maniac and mass-murderer, Joseph Stalin. Why such unfairness to Stalin, whose works deserve, in Chevalier’s view, to be made readily available to the reading public?
In one post, Avila Chevalier described the animated film Anastasia as “an explicitly anti-USSR kid’s movie,” and in another post she linked to she wrote: “Time for me to once again sympathize with the people the Bolsheviks put in the blender for like 90 min 😌.”
Anastasia is about a woman to claimed to be the Tsarevna who was the only survivor of the murder of the Tsar and his family at Ekaterinburg. Avila Chevalier’s comment was meant to be a sarcastic dismissal of those trying to make her, and everyone else, sympathetic to those, including the Tsar and his family, whom the Bolsheviks murdered.
This lover of Marx and Lenin, and defender of the works of J. V. Stalin, clearly embraces Communism, the end of private property, and worker control of wealth. She also wants to see an end — that she mentioned during her campaign — to the police, though she hasn’t explained how law and order will be maintained. And she wants open borders, so that anyone who wants to come and settle in our country, no matter how hostile to its values, should be allowed in. That would be the end of the American nation-state.
Did I mention that Darializa Aviva Chevalier is a convert to Islam? Communism and Islam, in different ways both undermine Western civilization. What a figure she will cut in the House of Representatives.
Wellington says
All of Karl Marx’s major principles are not only wrong but ludicrously wrong, with one semi-exception here. This semi-exception is Marx’s economic interpretation of history. Minus Marx somewhat stumbling into the truth with this semi-exception, he got everything else horribly wrong and with enormously destructive consequences for humanity since Marx’s death in 1883.
Let’s see here. Such major contentions by Marx as the theory of alienation, the class struggle theory (a particularly invidious theory and which has led to many mass slaughters), the labor value theory (so stupid that Marx actually contended that the only reason why anything has value is because of the labor put into it, thus not even taking into account such other things as intrinsic worth, such as gold as silver have, and even such rudimentary other matters like advertising costs), dialectical materialism (just another silly Teutonic idiocy a a Hegel) and determinism (which I have longed called voodoo for intellectuals). And so on.
I think it imperative that in order to refute Marxism (and socialism is just Marxism in slow motion), that one knows about Marx’s major principles and thereafter takes on these foolish ideas of Marx (and Engels) and demonstrates with copious evidence (it is indeed abundant) that Adam Smith got things right and Marx got things horribly wrong.
As usual, knowledge is power. And modern Democrats aplenty in the USA have virtually zero knowledge when extolling Marx implicitly or explicitly, such as the utter fool, Chevalier, has done.
Amazing how stupid ideas keep being resurrected as sapient ideas when they are not. No better example can be found recently with so many in the Democratic Party of the USA doing so, all this coupled with hatred of Israel which is ALWAYS as well a hatred of America and all of Western Civilization.
Walter Sieruk says
Karl Marx with his COMMUNIST MANIFESTO an long with his three volume THE CAPITAL in which he explained his economic political/philosophical scheme for a “classless and stateless society “ in which “Everyone works according his ability and receives according to his needs.’’ has many times over by refuted and discredited by genuine economists, sociologists and historians. These scholars have thoroughly exposes the many economic fallacies and flaws of Marxism way before the collapse of Communism in Russia and the Eastern bloc nations in 1992. Therefore even the recent history of the early 1990’s disproves Marxism as extremely erroneous. So it’s Adam Smith with his THE WEALTH OF NATIONS that is valid and in contrast Karl Marx with his written nonsensical a full of folly and invalid.
So it’s highly unlikely that Communist rulers [dictators] really believe in the obvious flawed economic fallacies of Karl Marx. Nevertheless, they all still need to publicly stand firm on the teachings, principles and precepts of Communism as laid down in the many writing of Marx. This is because evil is always looking for an excuse. Therefore, Marxism is the excuse to set up and up hold tyrannical red regimes. As if those Communist dictators actually believe that in the future a “pure perfect Communist society “ will come from their tyranny . As in the saying “Being cruel, brutal and deadly for the greater good” What nonsense! Thus to uphold the ideals of Marxism, Communist tyrants as Kim Jong Un of North Korea cruelly persecute Christians. For Christians believe in the Bible and Marxism is so very weak and fragile in its nature and because it lacks sound logic and rational arguments based on reason to uphold it , the whole Marxist system collapse down to the ground In the light in information of the Bible. Since Communists don’t have a firm foot based on reality and reason to base Marxism on in which is the foundation for the heinous rule. They resort to extremely harsh severe, malicious and murderous persecution against Christians and burn their Bibles.
Walter Sieruk says
Since the subject of Communism has been brought up. It’s thus appropriate time to also mention the subject of Communist nation of Cuba an appropriate time It’s important to define the concept of Communism .Otherwise known as Marxism. There the pipe-dream of a pure Marxist society in the philosophical political economic fantasy that no one is ever really in need and everyone “Works according to his abilities and receives according to his needs”
In contrast, the is the reality of Communism which is that Marxism is a philosophy that no intelligent person can actually, truthfully accept is not only unrealistic and unnatural but also a joke and an excuse to set up and prop-up tyranny. For evil is always looking for an excuse. Marxism is just the excuse need to set up brutal regimes. Such as that of that Communist tyrannical and oppressive of Red Cuba.
40 rounds says
Knowledge is power and obviously the voters lack it in spades or they’re for it hook, line, and sinker. They’ll find out the hard way when their property gets confiscated