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Democratic Socialist Candidate's Old Tweets Praising Communist Leaders Resurface
Archived social media posts from 2020-2022 show the candidate reposting statements praising leaders including Kim Il Sung and Joseph Stalin. The candidate won a New York congressional primary earlier this week.
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Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier faces renewed scrutiny after archived Twitter posts from 2020-2022 resurfaced following her primary win Tuesday. The posts include a repost of a quote from Assata Shakur stating a preference for Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, and Fidel Castro over Marx and Lenin.
Shakur was a Black Liberation Army member convicted in 1977 of murdering a police officer before fleeing to Cuba.
Additional posts show Chevalier writing that most political theory she had read was communism while noting interest in anarchism. Other posts criticized libraries and bookstores for insufficient communist literature, including references to Stalin's collected works.
Chevalier also reposted content describing the film Anastasia as an anti-USSR children's movie and labeling a Sheryl Crow song as bootstrap capitalist propaganda.
Response During an interview on MS NOW's The 11th Hour, Chevalier declined to address accusations of being a communist, stating she would not respond to that framing. The candidate had previously drawn criticism for posts calling for an end to all deportations, police, and prisons.
