Back to the Luddites (who were fucking awesome) if you've never read Kevin Binfield's "Writing of the Luddites" you need to remedy that right away - it's available on the Internet Archive and puts all this pearl clutching outrage into it's proper context:
All these people today who get weak at the knees when some CEO gets shot, listen up- your ancestors were 100 times more ruthless and would be laughing at your foolish and misplaced sympathy for your oppressors:
Imagine sending a letter to your local magistrate or cop that begins "This is to inform thee that thy life will be taken from thee the very first oppertunity" and ends with "and I Remain thy mortal Enimey"
"....striving to take poor people's labour from them I think the medallion soon to be given to such villains as you is a leaden ball with powder that will not digest, sooner and better
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https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/richard-seymour-on-luigi-mangione
https://ia803409.us.archive.org/16/items/writings-of-the-luddites/Writings%20of%20the%20Luddites.pdf
These people did not fuck around, and they had the total support of their communities.
Imagine sending a letter to your local magistrate or cop that begins "This is to inform thee that thy life will be taken from thee the very first oppertunity" and ends with "and I Remain thy mortal Enimey"
fuck me
I am for Ludd and the poor."