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TL;DR We shouldn't destroy the machines, we should seize them from the ruling class.
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which is smart and good and not ludditism. honestly I'm not even sure ludditism would be possible for them, unless they suddenly started blowing up random AWS server closets until they got the ones that happen to be generating screenplays
Sure, but our respect for Luddites is for who they are in their context. In the same way that the Jacobins are not how we should be, but they developed much of our theories for us and experimented in ways that gave us a better understanding
Yeah that's fair.
jacobinism was a movement around re-installing the stuarts to the throne of England and Scotland it was in no way shape or form related to socialism
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I was not accusing the writer's strike of doing otherwise. My comment was in response to the tweet in the screenshot which claimed socialists are luddites. The writer's strike was not luddite. Socialists are not luddites.
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yes, and I would further add that some amount of destruction of means of production is inevitable in the process of waging class war, but it should not be the primary aim of class war
that said the jacobin movement was fucking awful. No we shouldn't have the stuarts back the stuarts were objectively terrible
WE'RE NOT LUDDITES!!!!! 
The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin governments of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most reactionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used.
