Human history is simply the history of the servitude which makes men - oppressed and oppressors alike - the plaything of the instruments of domination they themselves have manufactured, and thus reduces living humanity to being the chattel of inanimate chattels. (Simone Weil)

Human history is simply the history of the servitude which makes men - oppressed and oppressors alike - the plaything of the instruments of domination they themselves have manufactured, and thus reduces living humanity to being the chattel of inanimate chattels.

Simone Weil

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