Simon's Blog

Simone Weil was a known rebel, yet a woman deeply motivated by the well-being of others. Her close friends noted that she felt an early calling to improve the conditions of the disadvantaged. She is frequently compared to Mother Teresa, as her actions were considered Christlike in nearly every endeavor. As she matured, Weil became a teacher and a dedicated political activist; out of sympathy for the working class, she joined local movements and supported the unemployed by striking alongside workers, often despite criticism from her inner circle. By her twenties, Weil became increasingly critical of Marxism, identifying it as a potential new form of oppression. She feared that elite bureaucrats would make life just as miserable for ordinary people as the most exploitative capitalists did. At the age of 34, following a lifetime of health struggles, Weil died of cardiac failure. While the coroner’s report concluded that she had starved herself, the exact circumstances of her death remai...