The Ludites Are Not Just Reactive, They Are Reactive and Reactive

The term lodike comes to be a term for just anyone who fruitlessly, pointlessly, tries to resist the onward march of technology. Luddites are remembered as a sort of fad, even as backward looking and reactive. The real haar of the real haart of the radical proletariat was found in lancashire and manchester where the newly automated, industrialized weaving industry really took off. And it was all those mands which the british ruling class and their political agents didn't want to meet.