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Luddites are often characterized as anti-technology. But in reality, they were anti-exploitation. The story of the Luddites, the conflict between rich capitalists and impoverished laborers, set the tone for many other class conflicts that followed. Understanding Luddism’s roots is deeply relevant for contemporary Catholic social thought on labor justice, especially in the era of AI.

Link here. Note: this was written by a guy I went to school with, do me a favor and spread it around--Levi is pretty dope.

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beautiful dusty landline I saw on a yard today

#dust #luddism #dishragcore

i wish being a luddite who hates state-sanctioned abuse of technology for control like mass surveilance & ai misinfo mills meant i could find others like this, but it's been co-opted by the "reject modernity, return to monke" chuds who just wanna roleplay a 70s style new-age secular cult town

#luddism #la li lu le lo

or, in other words...

#luddism #idk i just like this quote #it's from a paper (J. Horn; 2005) comparing machine-breaking in england and france #and that is such a strong pithy line to end it on. good job pal.

so it turns out i have in fact been grossly overestimating the violence of the Luddites

#i'm pretty sure that comes out to “william horsfall and nobody else” on the luddites' death tally?#idk i can't actually name another victim but also the only person who died in the swing riots was one of the rioters #(by which metric you would also have to count booth and hartley against the luddites. so idk.)#luddism #if you're just tuning in: i kept saying “about five”#in my defence there's a few cases of “they severely injured this person in a way that might not be survivable. we will not return to this”#i do think there are at least two cases brought against the yorkshire luddites where it's a miracle the target of violence DIDN'T die #one case where they broke an informer's skull and another where a man was shot in the face (he lost an eye but survived)#also they did do their damnedest to kill william cartwright #but yeah. uh. they literally killed fewer mill-owners than the mill-owners directly killed of them.

oh my god it's so refreshing to read a paper where someone ACTUALLY STATES THE THING THAT IS CONSTANTLY BOUNCING AROUND MY HEAD THE ENTIRE TIME instead of going "man what a load of violent idiots amirite?"

(Luddism Reconsidered, David Linton, 1985)

#luddism #plus ça change i guess

nothing highlights how badly the british legal system needed reform in 1812 like reading "and then they swore in a jury of 23 men to try the accused Luddites! oh, the most vocal and famous opponent of the Luddites in Yorkshire, the magistrate who had received two Luddite threats on his life in the past month, and who had personally provided evidence against multiple of the prisoners? yeah he was a juror."

#luddism #like man our current jury system is not exactly great but it's sometimes good to remember it used to be So Much Worse #i mean this was also very much a show trial. but still.

getting a dumb phone. the way forward is not good or really convenient or fun by any means but the alternative is so gigantically evil that even entertaining the possibility will turn you into a pillar of salt. the only thing keeping people going is the unconscious belief that they will not have the phone forever. but if they were forced to confront the eventuality of living the rest of their days on the phone they would see. and it would be too horrible to recover from. better to look away.

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