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“I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsoleteâ€� hand-loom weaver, the “utopianâ€� artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experienceâ€�”
― E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class