I believe this sentiment to be a mistake.
The IT world is waiting for a revolution. Only in order to blame that revolution for the mistakes of a few powerful people.
I would not be surprised if all this revolutionary sentiment is manufactured. That thing about "Luddites" (not a thing that will stick by the way), this nostalgic stuff, all of it.
We need to be much smarter than that and not fall for such obvious traps.
An identity is a target on your back. We don't need one. We don't need to unite to a cause, we're already amongst one of the most united kinds of workers there is, and we don't need a galvanizing identity to do it.