I am *begging* people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere.
They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
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So many co-opted words and ideas floating around as subtle disinformation campaigns.
But I guess it really depends on who'll end up writing the histories of the twentieth- and twenty first-century western social and political movements to see how it all shakes out.
No.
The Luddites hated seeing hundreds of thousands of their friends/ fellow workers getting crushed to the death by industrial machinery while laboring for meager wages.
To this day, you can't unfuck the meaning. It's ingrained too deep in the lexicon.
Tell the story because the label has been buried -
Exploitation of the 99% has become unbearable for far too many; as bad as it is now, give it a few more weeks
Post it and repeat
New Luddite could be all of that plus anti-technology/AI?
would luddites have formed steam engine cooperatives? steampunk socialism? or would they rather return to be peasants in the field?
Not that there’s anything wrong with working the land. You eat food, don’t you?
-Frank Herbert’s Dune
those were things the lower skilled workers themselves fought for, not the luddites. the luddites wanted to ensure they were unable to use the technology that did their job
factory safety laws, union legality and later pensions were won inside the mills, after luddism
http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/people/luddites.htm
they were anti technology and anti progressive
I don't even know where to begin with the conflation of elements you are positing.
You enjoy your day.
Always imagine peeps become libertarian cos of potty-training trauma which leaves them with deep sub-conscious resentment that they weren't allowed to shit themselves for as long as they wanted.
It took less than 24 hours for Brian Thompson to go from "CEO of United Healthcare" to "A Healthcare Worker" and almost no-one objected to this that I saw.