Luddism
- a word derived from Luddite.
Example Sentences
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This is no call to Luddism, and I’m far from an expert on doing this myself.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2025
And by doing Luddism, they not only won important protections, but they illuminated this struggle in a way.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
Luddism urges us to consider: progress towards what and progress for whom?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2019
The belief that the law will never “catch up” to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.
From The Verge ● Oct. 19, 2017
Luddism, fanatical opposition to the introduction of machinery as it originally manifested itself among the hand-loom weavers of the Midlands.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
