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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 Ref
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.
| 22534 | People care less about what is communal, and more about what is their own [Aristotle] |
| 23053 | The great interest of the human race is cordial unity and unlimited mutual aid [Owen] |
| 23137 | Liberty without socialism is injustice; socialism without liberty is brutality [Bakunin] |
| 23160 | Being a slave of society is hardly better than being a slave of a despot [Russell] |
| 23162 | Managers are just as remote from workers under nationalisation as under capitalism [Russell] |
| 23165 | Socialists say economic justice needs some state control of industries, and of foreign trade [Russell] |
| 21525 | When the state is the only employer, there is no refuge from the prejudices of other people [Russell] |
| 23750 | It is not more money which the wretched members of society need [Weil] |
| 23847 | Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population [Weil] |
| 20575 | Socialist economics needs a very strong central power, virtually leading to slavery [Hayek, by Oksala] |
| 23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
| 20097 | The welfare state aims at freedom from want, and equality of opportunity [Micklethwait/Wooldridge] |
| 20540 | Redistributing wealth treats some people as means, rather than as ends [Swift] |