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.
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.