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The Luddites were an organised group of workers in the textile industry, who destroyed the machinery that was taking their livelihoods. The movement began in 1811 in Nottinghamshire, and quickly spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
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What the Luddites were was pro-worker's control. While they may not have been anti-capitalist in the way you are framing it, they did object to a certain evolution of capitalism and the effect it would have on them both experientially and financially. At every juncture, there are winners and losers. And this is always going to be contested terrain, filled with moral ambiguity.
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Thompson counters the view that the Luddites were thuggish. There were remarkably few Luddite arrests and executions, and yet they operated highly effectively against the forces of the state. The best explanation for this is that they were working with the consent of the local communities (or indeed were part of those communities).
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