Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism

Personal Comment: I think we as a country can do better, and her walkback is the lamest non-apology I have ever seen.

Summary: CNN reviewed Darializa Avila Chevalier’s archived Twitter account, which revealed a pattern of pro-communist and Marxist posts from 2020–2022, which she had deleted in June 2022.

She has responded by saying she has grown since those tweets and is focused on her community’s future, and declined to engage when President Trump publicly accused her of being a communist, saying “I won’t be reactive.”

Tweets

- Retweeted a post defending communism against the “not enough soup” critique of the system
- Called the animated film Anastasia “an explicitly anti-USSR kid’s movie”
- Called a Sheryl Crow song “bootstrap capitalist propaganda”
- Retweeted a post arguing for democratic worker control of wealth, ending with “you can call that communism, you can call it socialism, you can call it pancakes”
- Said most political theory she’d read was communist, and that “the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me”
- Posted calls to “seize the means of production” and to abolish police, prisons, and borders
- Said Black and Arab men are both “fetishizing ugly colonizer women”
- Described wiping her dirty hands on the American flag in lieu of a napkin
- Reposted a quote from Assata Shakur expressing preference for communist leaders like Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro over Marx and Lenin
- Lamented that banned books sections rarely feature Stalin’s collected work

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/darializa-avila-chevalier-communism-tweets