Single Idea 23847

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 8. Socialism]

Full Idea

What is called Socialism tends to force everybody without distinction into the proletarian condition.

Gist of Idea

Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population

Source

Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Towns')

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.77


A Reaction

For example, Weil favours maximising private house ownership, rather than communally owned housing. She is describing wholesale nationalisation. I would incline towards nationalisation only of all basic central services.