Were Luddites pro-elite, or anti-elite? Factory technology was definitely something both hated, and intentionally propagated.
Violent conflicts were fought by different stacking frame manufacturers for making them cheaper, and more efficient than one other.
Similarly Saddam attacked Kuwait on the premise of selling oil cheap, and diluting his power.
Knowledge, sophistication, and culture was an alternative to "eliteness" given by having the biggest stick around.
What Greek, and Roman elites realised naturally 2000 years ago, and what we do not now is that knowledge, and culture were power, and that power must be prevented from being monopolised.
Scholars, historians, artisans, and scribes were patronised by the state to prevent "eliteness" being monopolised by clans, and powerful families.
A good way to prevent a man with the biggest stick from seizing power is to give more sticks to other people. And similarly "cultural eliteness" was kept accessible to foreign gentry to drag them into Greek society, so they don't try to reach "elitness" by swinging the stick.