Full Idea
To strive from necessity and not for some good - ...that is always slavery.
Gist of Idea
If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery
Source
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace [1942], 'Work')
Book Reference
Weil,Simone: 'Gravity and Grace', ed/tr. Crawford/De Ruhr [Routledge 1952], p.180
A Reaction
It is usual to see the possibility of anarchism as the starting point for political thinking, but I think for Weil the state of slavery has that role.