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The Luddites were not ignorant reactionaries but an organized, militant labor movement that understood the threat certain machines posed to their livelihoods when factory bosses used them to drive down wages and exploit child labor

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  1. Brian Merchant Journalist and author; writes Blood in the Machine
    the real Luddites were not dumb reactionaries who wanted to smash machines because they did not understand them. They were a well-organized and militant labor movement whose members fully grasped the threat certain machines posed to their livelihoods, when used by factory bosses to drive down wages and exploit child labor.

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