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Full Idea
The only possibility of salvation would lie in a co-operation between weak and strong, with a view to accomplishing a progressive decentralisation of social life; but the absurdity of such an idea strikes one immediately.
Gist of Idea
Decentralisation is only possible by co-operation between strong and weak - which is absurd
Source
Simone Weil (Reflections on Liberty and Social Oppression [1934], p.113)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'Oppression and Liberty' [Routledge 1955], p.113
A Reaction
I take this to be a judgement on the anarchist ideal, rather than a bit of modest devolution. The UK government set up regional parliaments. She says centralisation is remorseless.