Religion and Theology

The era of Simone Weils life existence affected her thinking and later on, her outlook on life. Her Reflections on War was basically against the situation that was happening to her society or country. She was a political activist of her time. For her, war is an act of interior politics towards its effect on economy. Thus, in her Reflections on War, the writer would want to know and express intense sympathy for the people at the working-class condition. She presented arguments about social violence brought about by modern technology. She believed that conflict exists because of subordination  between the people who made the command  as she called the man at the desk, and those who just obey  the man at the workbench. According to her, whatever political revolution that would take place if there is no total transformation of the methods of production  methods that depended on subordination of the worker both to the machine and to the managerial bureaucracy, it is still impossible to alleviate working-class oppression.

The foundation of her ideas that resulted to her radical view was on her philosophy and definition of what work is. For her, work directed entirely toward its own end, and carried out with indifference to ones desires, is the only truly radical way to act Labor must place over technology because if not, it will increase social violence that she had observed and experienced.

    Her writings on Reflections on War, I believed, were conceived primarily form a socialcultural perspective. This can be seen in her interest on the worker, the working class condition, and her passionate concern for social justice.