I learned to appreciate the plain people, the pastoral nature of south-central Pennsylvania and the allure of Luddism. |
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But it is no use muttering about Luddism when people are simply asking how society will gain from new medical technologies or biobanks. |
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Finally, I resent the accusation of Luddism levelled at objectors. |
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What's going on instead is more interesting than that, or than mere nostalgia or even some strain of reactionary Luddism. |
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From air-conditioning to computers to a variety of other communications gear and high-tech weaponry, there is little Luddism among Muslims. |
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Luddism was in fact a prototypical, insurrectionary labour movement involving a loose coalition of dissenters. |
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An agricultural variant of Luddism, centering on the breaking of threshing machines, occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England. |
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The conflict between capital and labor is therefore reduced to its primitive Manichean opposition and to forms of luddism that were never part of Gramsci's vision. |
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