??? they absolutely were revolting against automation obviating their skill sets, they were skilled artisans (not proletarian factory workers, with whom they were competing) who knew that they literally could not compete with machinery allowing 100x the work to be done at a tenth of the cost. They saw the writing on the wall for them and smashed machinery to protect their own economic survival

If only they had the foresight to understand that proletarianization was coming whether they smashed machines or not, maybe they could have, i dunno, seized them instead. But they didn’t, and couldn’t have even thought to do so, because the theory that would have allowed them to understand present conditions hadn’t even been begun to be considered