• merdaverse@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah, the machines that they smashed had been in use in England for 2 centuries at that point. It’s very unlikely that they just decided to rebel against this 2 century old “new technology” because they were some primitive brutes as they are depicted. History is written by the victors, and in this case capitalists were successful in tarnishing their reputation for centuries.