No, I will not explain further.
they were all either killed by the military, or arrested and executed... seizing the looms would not have had any different result.
the mainstream narrative is your standard erasure of the working class nature of past movements
Wheras a small groop of weavers could have very plausibly took over the British state and resisted the ensuing backlash from continental Europe
Luddites had big adventurism energy. They were correct in their assesment that the spread of industrial looms would chain them to the factory, and lead to the death of the cottage industry that had supported them for generations, but they had no real answer for that crisis other than destruction. Destruction which was, to the factory owners as a class, little more than a nuisance.
