"m II" wrote in message news
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D Peter Maus wrote:
It's not a very precise term. Nor is it correctly used in this
application.
No it's not. Ludd wasn't anti progress, he was against machinery
destroying the livelihoods of countless thousands. The Guilds and
Journeymen/Apprentices had been around for quite while.
The current definition is "a person opposed to machinery or new technology."
Your definition is around a century old and obsolete.