The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism

Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant's timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism?

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Monthly Review
Published
2024-12-01
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https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-07-2024-11_6
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Eastern European Communism and Reforms
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The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism

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The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism

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Abstract

Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant's timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism?

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