This rewriting of history, by supposed lefties, is just fucking insane.

Luddites were not good people, not in any way. They hated the fact that lower-paid workers - people from the countryside - were moving to cities, and taking their jobs. They're fucking Reformers, One Nation, Republicans, AfD, whatever in the country you live.

Yeh, employers were shit, but they didn't want better working conditions. Nope, just to destroy the machines so poor people couldn't make cheaper fabric than them.

When you revive Luddites as some sort of heroic movement, you revive the same right wing populist shit we're dealing with right now

#Luddites