The Coco Chanel Commies Making ‘Radical Chic’ Look Quaint

One of the biggest problems with being a socialist is that you have to pretend to be poor while stealing everyone else’s money for yourself. Call it the Coco Chanel Commie problem, and it’s spreading.

This manifested last week when the far-Left, socialist French politician, Louis Boyard, was caught on camera taking off a watch, which people speculate is a high-end Rolex, before his interview during which he lambasts the ultra-rich and the system that benefits them.

How parfait.

If the watch is the $50,000 unit the internet says it is, then Boyard would join the long list of champagne socialists, millionaire Marxists, gauche caviar hypocrites who are becoming increasingly loud and luxurious. Right behind Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party’s former presidential candidate, who owned multiple luxury properties and was accused of avoiding the Impôt de Solidarité sur la Fortune (ISF), France’s wealth tax at the time.

Their policies will starve you dry, but they’ll sure as heck live in opulence as they sell you their poison.

At 25 years old, the French MP is already in the top 5-10% of earners in his country, yet that doesn’t stop him from criticizing capitalism’s success, defending the welfare state, emphasizing wealth redistribution through higher taxes, and despising the moderate Left of French politics. He’s a DSA junkie, here to destroy France from within, just like the DSA activists in America are trying to do. But like those on the Titanic, at least he’ll be dressed nice as the ship goes down. And he knows exactly how to work a crowd.

The social media savvy politician, boasting a whopping 531,000 followers on Instagram alone, abides by the same playbook as socialist social media influencers and politicians in the United States. Promise free things and easier living to an aggrieved youth class, convince them that socialists alone can solve all of their problems, and if they’ll only relinquish their rights, securities, and property, they’ll be rewarded with goodness and equality. (Spoiler alert: the goodness and equality and rainbows and butterflies never come.)

Boyard isn’t a one-off. He’s just the latest face on a very old grift, and America has plenty of its own.

He’s eerily similar to our least favorite anchor baby turned tyrant, Hasan Piker, who has called for the death of capitalists, conservative lawmakers, and American greatness generally. Piker was flogged online recently after he jetted off to Cuba (potentially in violation of American law, mind you) donning a $690 silk button-down, $1,380 Cartier glasses, and $4,000 luxury rings while partying it up in the Marxist nation that endures frequent blackouts in its capital city for 90% of its residents.

The DSA prolocutor who’s in favor of taxing you for everything you’ve got, seizing private property, abolishing current American institutions, and expanding the welfare apparatus indefinitely is worth a shiny $8 million, owns a multi-million dollar home in West Hollywood and a Porsche Taycan, thanks in large part to his rewarding career as a Twitch streamer. This is where he secretes straight sunshine and wisdom to the masses, perched atop his spinny chair. One such piece of wisdom: “I’d rather be a rich socialist than a broke boy defending capitalism.” From his mouth to the devil’s ears.

His boyfriend, and New York’s terrifying step-dad, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has the same issue, faces the same moral dilemma (which neither of them seems too pressed to solve), where they preach policies that make life more unaffordable for Americans, dressed up in pretty packaging, while profiting from the systems they deride. Mayor Marxist has a higher salary at $258,750 a year than Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Scott Bessent, and JD Vance, and members of his city council just voted to approve a pay raise for themselves and higher officials. To pay for Mrs. Mamdani’s vintage Balenciaga coat and $630 Miista boots, of course. This collective is feeling suffocatingly warm, isn’t it?

But this isn’t just tacky. It’s the same grift that ends in bread lines every single time.

Take Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, communist dictators who got rich selling the same promises Boyard, Piker, and Mamdani are selling now. Castro’s personal wealth is estimated to have peaked at $900 million in 2006. Chavez died worth an estimated $4 billion, unable to hear the cries of his starving, suffering citizens from the porch of his mansion, the leather seats of his Mercedes, or over the sound of his high-end helicopters. Sound familiar?

Why would people put such egotistical strongmen in office in the first place? Well, because they claimed to help the poor, fight corruption, and reduce inequality. They promised to redistribute wealth and land, expand social programs to make everything universal and free, and increase state control over industries like oil.

And then once in power, the masks fell.

Will we ever learn these evergreen lessons: That those promising us pies in the sky on the condition that we surrender our freedoms probably don’t have our best interests at heart? That these new socialists aren’t magically absolved of corruption, and immune to greed?

Of course, many politicians and activists will be enticed by power and hungry for more, but at least the capitalists are proponents of a system that makes everyone money, lifts the most humans out of poverty, and is the most effective economic mechanism the world has yet to create. While socialists are the sweetest talkers, their end goal of communism — a classless, moneyless, stateless society in which everyone farts flowers and poops rainbows — will do what it’s done for all of time, and leave you high and dry before you can ever reach such utopia. Meanwhile, real people stand in real bread lines while their leaders count offshore accounts.

Or we can continue to elect the likes of Chef Boyard(ee), as he sells destruction and cooks up corruption, wearing a Rolex.