Note Sur La Suppression Générale Des Partis Politiques by Simone Weil
An incisive polemic arguing that political parties are destructive institutions that undermine individual conscience and public life, substituting factional loyalty, bureaucratic power and abstract ideology for attention to concrete human needs; they foster hatred, deceit and a drift toward violence and totalitarianism. The author insists parties should be abolished and replaced by forms of political organization grounded in truth, immediate duties and face-to-face responsibility—local associations, nonpartisan representation and decentralized institutions that reconnect governance to real needs and moral attention. The essay combines philosophical, moral, and practical arguments, warning that only by freeing politics from party machinery can civic life be restored to service of the common good.
- Published
- 1943
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 8-20 pages
- Original Language
- French
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- Note on the General Suppression of Political Parties
- On the General Suppression of Political Parties
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