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Kelly Parks

Luddites were *not* struggling against early "industrial capitalism". They were protesting the machines that took their jobs and wanted their jobs back. That's why the term "luddite" is still associated with opposition to innovation.

ArsTropica

"Sabotage" also has an interesting etymology. It originally referred to shoe-making before it was appropriated to reference the throwing of wooden sabots into machinery by disgruntled workers, an event that may not have actually occurred.