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A review by brice_mo
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil, Czesław Miłosz, Simon Leys
5.0
I came to Simone Weil through her religious writing, and I was delighted to see that her gift for an almost prophetic level of insight extends to politics.
For anybody who feels disenchanted by the political climate in which we live, this is a wonderfully encouraging essay. Weil argues that the system feels corrupt because it is corrupt, and the artifice that seems to plague political discourse is irredeemable.
That might sound hopeless, but I take it as a call to rethink our understanding of how we occupy cultural spaces—if politics are inherently predatory, how do we effect systemic cultural change?
We play a new game.
For people who may feel like they are on the margins of their group identity, whether that is political or religious, Weil offers the hope that they may be uniquely gifted to speak into their cultures and subcultures.
Good stuff.
For anybody who feels disenchanted by the political climate in which we live, this is a wonderfully encouraging essay. Weil argues that the system feels corrupt because it is corrupt, and the artifice that seems to plague political discourse is irredeemable.
That might sound hopeless, but I take it as a call to rethink our understanding of how we occupy cultural spaces—if politics are inherently predatory, how do we effect systemic cultural change?
We play a new game.
For people who may feel like they are on the margins of their group identity, whether that is political or religious, Weil offers the hope that they may be uniquely gifted to speak into their cultures and subcultures.
Good stuff.