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From February 1812 to January 1813, the Luddite movement spread rapidly in Yorkshire. They rushed into the airport one after another, smashed the machines that took their jobs, and seriously damaged the interests of the bourgeoisie.

The Yingguo Town Government also launched a quick response, promulgating the "Safeguarding Law and Order Act" to suppress the Luddites through violent agencies.

At first, due to the strict discipline within the Luddites, the suppression and searches by the military and police had little effect.

Luddites often gather at night, sometimes masked, their goals are very clear, often machines or factory products, and will not plunder any other private property of the factory owner. Once the task is completed, the leader of the squad will carry out Roll call (usually called code name).

They are numerous in number but extremely scattered, and often a dozen or so people can complete the destruction of a factory, causing the capitalists and the Yingguo town government an extremely headache.

The Luddites in Lancashire put forward some political demands, such as reforming the House of Commons and absorbing some working-class individuals as MPs, etc. These initiatives later became part of the National Charter movement.

George Mailer, a leader of the Luddite movement, once said that such action "until those workers can support their children with their own hands and crafts", while saying that "we destroy these machines and destroy these properties. This is an act of hostility, but it is a powerful action again and again, and it is a call!"

After these campaigns, the factory owners gradually compromised, and many cloth merchants closed their doors or began to put away their machines, but there were still some particularly stubborn large factories still "resisting", and this was the next goal of the Luddites. The movement entered its second phase.

But at this time they encountered setbacks. For example, George Mailer once led dozens of workers to attack the Rowfords factory at night. They were blocked in front of the big iron gate and had no choice but to smash out a small hole.

They were exposed to the sight of the guards, several people were shot and killed, and they could only retreat hastily before the arrival of the officers and soldiers.

The two seriously injured Luddites were abandoned in front of the factory and tortured by the town government without revealing any information.

At the time of the burial, thousands of people gathered to mourn the dead Luddites, putting "the town in great danger."

As a result, the morale of the Luddites plummeted and their identities were exposed.

Unable to find a way out, the workers resort to an irrational last resort: assassination.

April 28, 1812

Through the assassination, Mailer assassinated a prestigious factory owner, Hosfa, and plunged the Luddite movement into the danger of "moral injustice".

The local people thought that the Luddites were cruel, and the criminals also used the banner of the Luddites to plunder, and the Luddites fell apart.

A centralized trial of the Luddites (the largest of many sporadic trials) was held on January 12, 1813, and 17 of the 66 people, including George Mailer, were sentenced to death and 6 to seven years of exile , 1 person was sentenced to life in exile, 16 people were released on bail, and the others were acquitted.

The Luddite movement, which lasted for nearly a year, subsided.

For the long-term development of the country, the Yingguo Town Government resolutely implemented a tough industrial policy to protect new inventions and new creations. It was bound to allow advanced machine production to completely replace the outdated manual production, thus taking the lead in completing the first industrial production. revolution.

Despite this, the "successors" of the Luddite movement are still active in Chinese society. Sometimes they have sporadic conflicts with factory owners, and sometimes they put forward new political demands in the name of trade unions.

After the 1930s and 1940s, the Charter Movement in China was in full swing. The working class won the right to vote and various social security rights for themselves through peaceful marches, petitions, and even violent conflicts.

For a long time, the explanation of the Luddite movement was the uprising of the working class against the oppression of the bourgeoisie, but later people gradually realized that the workers in the Luddite movement were not directed at the factory employers, but at the Machines that can take their jobs.

This movement is actually a movement in which the workers vowed to defend "manual production". Although the production efficiency of the machine is higher, the current livelihood is difficult to sustain. For the workers, how can they care about the future?

In fact, in many European regions where the textile industry is developed, people's resistance to machines is even worse. For example, in the Empire of Will area, because the strength of the workers' guild is too strong, the workers can choose to throw the inventor of the machine into the water and drown them through a "democratic vote", thus keeping their "jobs", but the consequences It is also fatal.

The attitude towards machines has directly affected the development level of the textile industry in the country and the Empire of Will. A series of patent laws, invention laws and other tough industrial protection policies in the country made the first industrial revolution develop and complete in the country first. It became the "empire on which the sun never sets" that flourished for a while.

But in the middle are the blood and tears of countless workers, colonial people, and slaves.

Such a mercantilist strategy proves that the free market and free competition cannot give birth to the industrial revolution. Regardless of the impact of monopoly companies on the domestic market, if they are completely liberalized and become a "small town government", then even the domestic It is difficult to reconcile the contradictions of various interest groups, and it is difficult to grasp the direction of the development of the times.

After the second industrial revolution, with the active working class, European and American countries successively introduced many protection bills for unemployed workers, including public services such as 8-hour working hours, dismissal subsidies, unemployment subsidies, job-changing skills training, etc., to help those Under the impact of new technologies, unemployed workers found jobs again, making irrational and violent movements such as the Luddite movement slowly disappear in history.

But today, there are still many people who call themselves "neo-Luddites". They worry that after the emergence of artificial intelligence and new Internet technologies, there will be concentrated large-scale unemployment in society and the widening gap between rich and poor, which will lead to social unrest, so they firmly oppose the development of science and technology.

Among them is the American genius scientist Kaczynski, who has an IQ of 167. He was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Harvard University at the age of 16. After graduating from his master's degree, he got his doctorate in a few months.

In order to resist the development of new technology, he reclusively lived in seclusion. For 18 consecutive years, he mailed bombs to famous scientists in the United States, causing 3 deaths and 20 injuries.

He mailed a letter to American newspapers, saying that if he could publish his academic papers, he would stop terrorist attacks, and the papers published in the "New York Times" and the Washington Post later were called "Industrial Society and Its Future" ".

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