| 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. |
| What's going on instead is more interesting than that, or than mere nostalgia or even some strain of reactionary Luddism. |
| But it is no use muttering about Luddism when people are simply asking how society will gain from new medical technologies or biobanks. |
| 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. |
| Not the least remarkable feature of the story of luddism is the part played by spies and agents provocateurs. |
| Finally, I resent the accusation of Luddism levelled at objectors. |
