WI: More Organized/Powerful Luddite Movement

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The Luddites liked to smash things.

Yet, they did so with purpose as many who partook in the smashing were often unemployed workers who, through automation, we're alienated from their artisan labor.

So my question is this:

What if the Luddites, instead practicing their beliefs in small decentralized groups, we're a large organized political group with political & economic ideals. Say a Ludditism comparable to a Marxism

How would this effect the movement?

What do you think would be the shape of this organized ideology?

Could Ludditism work as collective movement?
 
Well, Luddism wasn't actually about smashing machines anymore than the student riots were about smashing windows. It was about wages and livelihood. So if they were more organised, we'd probably not see them as moronic anti-techology vandals.
 
Well, Luddism wasn't actually about smashing machines anymore than the student riots were about smashing windows. It was about wages and livelihood. So if they were more organised, we'd probably not see them as moronic anti-techology vandals.

Ummm....
Not really. Yes, it was about wages and livelihood - because their jobs were disappearing, being replaced by machines. So, while they weren't (only) "moronic anti-technology vandals", they WERE "futile anti-technology activists".

but the "anti-technology" bit was the whole point.
 
Maybe a better timing of the revolut could force Great Britain to concentrate on the interior for some years and, meanwhile, seek peace with Napoleon.
 
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I actually surprised luddism didn't find support among the aristocracy in countries like russia or China, or the Catholic Church for that matter.

Why unintentionally liberate the landed gentry through automation if you didn't have too?
 
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