Between February 1812 and January 1813, the Luddite movement spread rapidly in Yorkshire, storming the airports and smashing the machinery that had taken away their work, to the detriment of the bourgeoisie.

The government also responded swiftly, enacting the Law and Order Bill, which suppressed the Luddites through violent agencies.

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

Luddites tend to assemble at night, sometimes masked, and their goal is very clear, often the products of the machine or the factory, and they do not plunder any other private property of the factory owner, and once the task is completed, the leader of the squad will take a roll call (usually called by a code name).

They were numerous but extremely scattered, and often a dozen people could complete the destruction of a factory, which was a great headache for the capitalists and the government of the country.

The Luddites in Lancashire put forward political demands such as a reform of the House of Commons and the inclusion of working-class individuals as MPs, which later became part of the Chartist movement.

George Mailer, one of the leaders of the Luddite movement, once said that such action would be taken "until the workers were able to feed their children with their own hands and crafts", and that "the destruction of these machines and the destruction of these properties may seem like a hostile act, but it is a powerful action, a call!" ”

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

But at this time, they encountered setbacks, such as George Mailer, who led dozens of workers to attack the Roforts factory at night, and they were helpless in front of the large iron gate, and the hammer they carried could only smash a small hole.

Exposed to the guards' field of vision, they were shot and killed, and were eventually able to retreat before the officers arrived.

Two seriously wounded Luddites were abandoned in front of the factory and severely tortured by the town government without revealing any information.

At the time of the burial, thousands of people gathered to mourn the dead Luddites, leaving "the town government 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 had no choice but to resort to one last irrational means: assassination.

On April 28, 1812, Mailer assassinated a prominent factory owner, Hosfa, putting the Luddite movement in danger of "moral injustice".

The local people thought that the Luddites were cruel, and the lawbreakers also looted under the banner of the Luddists, and the Luddites fell apart.

On 12 January 1813, a centralized trial of the Luddites was held (the largest of many sporadic trials), in which 17 of the 66 men, including Georges Mailer's, were sentenced to death, 6 were sentenced to 7 years of exile, 1 was sentenced to life exile, 16 were released on bail, and the others were acquitted.

The Luddite movement, which had lasted for almost a year, was put to rest.

For the sake of the long-term development of the country, the government resolutely pursued a tough industrial policy, protected new inventions and new creations, and was bound to completely replace the artificial production after the fall by advanced machine production, thus taking the lead in completing the first industrial revolution.

Despite this, the "heirs" of the Luddite movement remained active in the country's society, sometimes in sporadic clashes with the factory owners, and sometimes in the name of the trade unions to raise new political demands.

After the thirties and forties of the 19th century, the Chartist movement was in full swing, and the working class fought for its right to vote and various social security rights through peaceful marches, petitions, and even violent conflicts.

For a long time, the Luddite movement was interpreted as an uprising of the working class against bourgeois oppression, but then it became clear that the workers in the Luddite movement were not pointing the finger at the factory employers, but at the machines that could replace their jobs.

This movement is actually a movement of workers to defend "manual production" to the death, and although the machines are more productive, the immediate livelihood is unsustainable, and for the workers, where can they care about the future?

In fact, in many European regions where the textile industry is developed, people have resisted machines more than once. For example, in the territory of the Will, because the workers' guilds were so powerful, the workers could choose to throw the inventor of the machine into the water and drown in the water through a "democratic vote", thus saving their "jobs", but the consequences were also fatal.

The attitude towards the machine directly affected the development level of the textile industry in the country and the territory of the empire, and a series of tough industrial protection policies such as patent law and invention law made the first industrial revolution to be developed and completed in the country, becoming a flourishing "empire on which the sun never sets".

But in the midst of this was the blood and tears of countless workers, colonists, and slaves.

This mercantilist strategy proves that the free market and free competition cannot give birth to the industrial revolution, not to mention the impact of monopoly companies on the domestic market, if it is completely liberalized and becomes a "small town government", it will be difficult to reconcile the contradictions of various domestic interest groups, and it will be 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 laws to protect unemployed workers, including 8-hour working hours, dismissal allowance, unemployment allowance, job skills training and other public services, to help those workers who were unemployed under the impact of new technologies to find jobs again, so that irrational and violent movements such as the Luddite movement slowly disappeared in history.

Today, however, there are still many who call themselves "New Luddites". They are adamantly opposed to the development of science and technology because they fear that the emergence of artificial intelligence and new Internet technologies will lead to concentrated mass unemployment in society, as well as a widening gap between the rich and the poor, which will lead to social unrest.

Among them is the American genius scientist Kaczynski, who has an IQ of 167 and was admitted to the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University at the age of 16, and received his doctorate in a few months after graduating with a bachelor's and master's degree.

In order to resist the development of new technology, he resolutely lived in seclusion, and for 18 consecutive years mailed bombs to famous American scientists, killing 3 people and injuring 20 others.

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