[KingMachiavelli]

I was going to say no but then I realized I would be unfairly judging the actual Luddites. (I would like to say that I am going by the podcast blurp rather than its content so they may very well cover the point I am making).

Hackers seem to oppose 'new' things in the technology space because most of them limit us and bind us to monolithic entity. Similarly, Luddites did not technically oppose technology but rather were outraged at their own loss of autonomy as crafts were replaced by mechanized, industrial production. Really the opposition of large, opaque, and closed software and services has very similar underlying drives as that of the Luddites. It's then not really a surprise when Marxist themes (some would say more libertarian but in practice not really) are somewhat common in open source & hacker spaces.