Unlike Hegel and Marx, who had more teleological theories of history (meaning they thought history in general moved in a given direction, more or less towards a given thing), Simone Weil thought history was more like biological evolution, where the stronger species survive and the weaker perish in any given environment, nothing is evolving towards anything, and you can't even say that species are "improving" beyond their survivability in their environment.

I was just on the Partially Examined Life podcast, to discuss Weil's ideas. You can listen to it here:

Part 1 on War and Oppression

Part 2 on War and Oppression