An anticapitalist tech blog
“Like the original Luddites before us, we don’t hate technology; we’re active participants in its creation. The Luddites were textile workers. They were sophisticated technical operators who destroyed machines not out of ignorance, but because, in their specific social and political context, those new machines guaranteed their immiseration. Today, we are hurtling towards a climate crisis. We face a resurgent global right and hitherto unimaginable global inequality. Perhaps, in this context, we ought to consider the example of the Luddites.”
