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Full Idea
What is called Socialism tends to force everybody without distinction into the proletarian condition.
Gist of Idea
Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Towns')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.77
A Reaction
For example, Weil favours maximising private house ownership, rather than communally owned housing. She is describing wholesale nationalisation. I would incline towards nationalisation only of all basic central services.