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Simone Weil was an early 20th century philosopher, and communist. She dedicated most of her early life to politics doing things like building unions and even working in factories to understand the plight of the common worker, for the goal of communism. At this point she was a dedicated pacifist, having witnessed the horror of World War I. However, around the outbreak of World War II she converted to Catholicism, and far from curbing her political aims, she abandoned pacifism and picked up a gun to try to shoot Fascists in Spain, and later trying anything to help the war effort. I went on Rev Left Radio a while ago to talk about her full biography.

Simone Weil was an early 20th century philosopher, and communist. She dedicated most of her early life to politics doing things like building unions and even working in factories to understand the plight of the common worker, for the goal of communism. At this point she was a dedicated pacifist, having witnessed the horror of World War I. However, around the outbreak of World War II she converted to Catholicism, and far from curbing her political aims, she abandoned pacifism and picked up a gun to try to shoot Fascists in Spain, and later trying anything to help the war effort. I went on Rev Left Radio a while ago to talk about her full biography.