What we have in Simone Weil's work is everything she thought, her entire development minutely catalogued. If some of it disturbs us, it might help to remember that this is not a writer capable of self-censorship for history's sake. Here is a thinker whose every waking moment was dedicated to examining the very reasons for man' s continuing injustice, starting with her own mind and her own actions. Relentlessly she documented painful self-discoveries. These led her to a classic remedy, one with timeless and universal application.
Visionaries have no defense.
They do not calculate. In another 200 years no one will care about the handful of statements which we do not like, and all her other, stunning insights into human morality, or lack of it, will still apply. I intend to read again to help me understand the damage I saw. Although she was deeply and passionately involved in Communist causes in the 1930 s, I now want to know what she thought about Marxism by the time of her death in l943. Her complete works have never been published in English.