Full Idea
It is obviously quite impossible for men to be treated like things in the labour market and in production, and to be treated as citizens in public life.
Gist of Idea
People can't be citizens in public life if they are oppressed in economic life
Source
Simone Weil (Lect 3: Politics and Society [1933], p.151)
A Reaction
Presumably this is because if people are oppressed in one area, they can never be fully free in another. Hard to prove, but sounds right.
Book Reference
Weil,Simone: 'Lectures on Philosophy' [CUP 1978], p.151