The aim is to replace economic oligarchies by the State, which has a will-to-power of its own and is quite as little concerned with the public good; and a will-to-power, moreover, which is not economic but military and therefore much more dangerous to any good folk who have a taste for staying alive. And on the bourgeois side what on earth is the sense of objecting to State control in economic affairs if one accepts private monopolies which have all the economic and technical disadvantages of State monopolies and possibly some others as well?


p. 230 - Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986) - The Power of Words (1937)

Simone Weil Quotes

The aim is to replace economic oligarchies by the State, which has a will-to-power of its own and is quite as little concerned with the public good;...

The aim is to replace economic oligarchies by the State, which has a will-to-power of its own and is quite as little concerned with the public good;...

The aim is to replace economic oligarchies by the State, which has a will-to-power of its own and is quite as little concerned with the public good;...

The aim is to replace economic oligarchies by the State, which has a will-to-power of its own and is quite as little concerned with the public good;...