Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practices or opinions of the Luddites.
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Examples
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This morning, I've been bombarded by what I'd call luddism if so doing weren't an insult to Luddites and a misappropriation of the term.
effing luddites. keryx 2004
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Snobbery and luddism run deep in the literary world.
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There is every cause not for luddism, but for optimism.
Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books 2011
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As for Heidegger, I empathize with the idea that we can embrace neither technofetishism nor luddism...
Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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That aside, the luddism of the final episode is absurd.
You Will Know the Disgrace, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As for Heidegger, I empathize with the idea that we can embrace neither technofetishism nor luddism...
Goods and services could neither be called just nor unjust Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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As for Heidegger, I empathize with the idea that we can embrace neither technofetishism nor luddism...
Love & Death in desert Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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According to the site: spiked is an independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms. spiked is endorsed by free-thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, and hated by the narrow-minded such as Torquemada and Stalin.
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As for Heidegger, I empathize with the idea that we can embrace neither technofetishism nor luddism...
Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The combination of government power and luddism can have a devastating effect on economic development, just as the unholy marriage of corrupt government and business have in the past and present.
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