The Luddite label has a radical, pro-worker political lineage

Evidence

All of which is to say, when you next hear someone referred to, disparagingly, as a “Luddite,” it might be good to remember that this moniker has a distinguished lineage in the history of radical politics—and in the very real and necessary work of pushing back against those who would turn human beings into slightly smelly appendages attached to large, efficient, and soulless technical systems. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 263

Categorization

• SHARE: A nerdily useful correction for anyone who reflexively uses ‘Luddite’ as an insult in tech debates.
• XREF: connects to: Luddite machine-breaking defended freedom and dignity alongside jobs
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Luddite machine-breaking defended freedom and dignity alongside jobs