Robin Hood

[Pretty Flaco]

He was a hardcore communist activist: what with his taking money back from the rich and giving it to the poor and whatnot! And not only that, but he did it all in tights.

I say we all congratulate Robin Hood: first comrade in history!

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k40/BHargrove1218/robinhoodmit.jpg

[JazzRemington]

I think the later Robin Hood stories had him be a nobleman. If that's the case, then Robin Hood would hypothetically be seeking to hijack a communist movement in order to restore his place in the feudal hierarchy.

[Devrim]

I say we all congratulate Robin Hood: first comrade in history!

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k40/BHargrove1218/robinhoodmit.jpg

He wasn't actually a historical figure. It is a story.

Devrim

[Sasha]

no!, hes realz, i read all his books.

[Dimentio]

There were actually two outcasts in the Sherwood who had the name Robin in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. They were band leaders and used to ambush travelling priests and bishops. That later became the basis of the Robin Hood legend. Even Little John apparently existed, though he was a pirate and lived about 50 years after the two Robins.

One of the two Robins was an ordinary peasant, while the other one was a small nobleman who feuded with a neighbouring nobleman.

The Robin Hood tales turned into Robin Hood plays in the middle of the 14th century, where a lot of peasants and local townspeople all over England (and Scotland) participated.

In the 16th century, Robin Hood plays had become some sort of spring-time ritual, where both common people and the nobility participated. For example, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon did impersonate Robin and Marion during one of these plays.

The Robin Hood plays were banned by the puritans for their "immorality". Apparently, there was quite a lot of sex and drinking associated with the custom.

[Forward Union]

He wasn't actually a historical figure. It is a story.

Devrim

Well, that's a popular position within a debate on the matter. I personally opt for the idea that he is a metaphor for a real historical phenomina of the time.

There was probably a popular group or numerous individuals and groups doing such things, something like radical charity work, which was eventually personified in folklore.

Furthermore, It could simply be that he was credited with the work of many people, and did actually exist but has been turned into a heroin for political reasons.

Last thing I will say. I think we should big up the Robin hood folklore, real or not, the fable proports a fairly good moral ethic. That it is fine to break the law for the benefit of the poorest in society. That the rich do not deserve their wealth etc. He is essentially a very popular, anti-privilage militant. Which we can twist to look like an Anti-capitalist pretty easily.

[Franz Fanonipants]

Forward Union: pro-mythical European wealth distributor, anti-Indian civilization!

[praxis1966]

Furthermore, It could simply be that he was credited with the work of many people, and did actually exist but has been turned into a heroin for political reasons.

Well, I always thought the tights somewhat foppish but I never knew he was actually transgendered.

[Franz Fanonipants]

bros did u know king arthur was an early anarchist cus he made his knights sit at a ROUND TABLE A TABLE WITH NO HEAD!

makes u think

[Forward Union]

Forward Union: pro-mythical European wealth distributor, anti-Indian civilization!

haha you bastard.

[Devrim]

Well, that's a popular position within a debate on the matter. I personally opt for the idea that he is a metaphor for a real historical phenomina of the time.

There was probably a popular group or numerous individuals and groups doing such things, something like radical charity work, which was eventually personified in folklore.


But that would make him no more of a historical personage than say, 'Captain Swing' was.

Devrim

[Spawn of Stalin]

Lifestylist.

[bcbm]

relevant (http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/11723)

[praxis1966]

relevant (http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/11723)

It's links like these that are the reason we should be able to give rep for Shit Chat posts.

[Angry Young Man]

I think the later Robin Hood stories had him be a nobleman.

Yea, the legend runs that he had his lands seized by the Sheriff of Nottingham while he was out on the crusades. He got back, was made homeless and set up his band of Merry Men.

But despite the fact that assuming that he did live, it was hundreds of years before Marx came along, what is really important was that he was from Yorkshire.

[Pretty Flaco]

relevant (http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/11723)
I think I busted my balls reading that! :laugh:

But just like Paleokostas, Robin Hood can't bust his balls: because they're made of STEEL.

[bcbm]

It's links like these that are the reason we should be able to give rep for Shit Chat posts.

i probably should've posted the link in diy

[praxis1966]

i probably should've posted the link in diy

Hahaha And the hits just keep on coming. :lol:

[Os Cangaceiros]

I say we all congratulate Robin Hood: first comrade in history!



Not according to Glenn Beck. (http://tv.gawker.com/5558173/glenn-beck-loves-robin-hood)

[Jimmie Higgins]

Damn those outside agitator anarchists from Sherwood forest! Robin Hood and his gang of thugs have no support from the population of Nottingham. No support!

[Jimmie Higgins]

Not according to Glenn Beck. (http://tv.gawker.com/5558173/glenn-beck-loves-robin-hood)Well Beck also calls Obama "socialist" so he has difficulty in assigning things to their logical category.

He failed the analogy part of the SATs.

Shop is to building::dog is to... HITLER!

Lake is to Ocean::creek is to... SOCIALISM!

[JazzRemington]

Yea, the legend runs that he had his lands seized by the Sheriff of Nottingham while he was out on the crusades. He got back, was made homeless and set up his band of Merry Men.

But despite the fact that assuming that he did live, it was hundreds of years before Marx came along, what is really important was that he was from Yorkshire.

I think Robin Hood was more of a folk hero for the ruling class, or he was at least turned into one. Robin Hood's main villain was King John, who, at the time, was very unpopular with the nobility, having lost about all of their French holdings after a disastrous and ill-advised war against the French king. The fact that Robin Hood lost his lands echoes this. I don't claim to be a Robin Hood scholar, but this is what it seems to me from what I know of Medieval England and the Robin Hood myth.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Well Beck also calls Obama "socialist" so he has difficulty in assigning things to their logical category.

He's been really going off on the Black Panthers recently.

I like listening to his show because I like to imagine that I'm listening to some pundit in the late 60's, with all the talk about communism, the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers. It's a total blast from the past.

[Pretty Flaco]

Did anybody see the recent "robin hood" movie with russel crowe?
I remember seeing the previews and loling when it started putting him out to be a monarch-crushing patriot.

[leftace53]

I FUCKING LOVE ROBIN HOOD
I dress up like him every chance I get. I play with bows and arrows, and steal from rich and give to the poor.

[Pretty Flaco]

Even Kanye West is a fan of Robin Hood!

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5662/robinwest.jpg

[ContrarianLemming]

according to mises, robin hood was actually a defended of property rights.
fuck (http://mises.org/daily/1492)

[Invincible Summer]

I FUCKING LOVE ROBIN HOOD
I dress up like him every chance I get. I play with bows and arrows,

That's pretty kinky tbh... Nottinghamshire Roleplay

[JazzRemington]

according to mises, robin hood was actually a defended of property rights.
fuck (http://mises.org/daily/1492)

Which is nonsense, because what would amount to "property rights" in our understanding of the term didn't exist back then. Notions of "property" were vastly different from what they are today, and this is another example of people applying contemporary measures to history that just don't fit well. Hell, he even selectively interprets the Robin Hood stories to exclude the part about how Robin Hood was a member of the nobility who had his land stolen. If anything, he was part of the State.

[soyonstout]

Historically, this guy (http://libcom.org/history/articles/1889-1933-max-hoelz)was a lot more interesting. and real.
However, I have to say that Robin Hood movies fascinated me as a kid and are still some of my favorite today. I wanted to see the Russel Crowe one even though I know it'll probably be lousy, for nostalgic reasons.

-soyons tout

[Franz Fanonipants]

plus don't forget in many versions of the story, Robin Hood is the might defender of the upright Saxons against their filthy, alien, swarthy Norman nobility.

so he might as well be a white supremacist activist too. c. 1210

[Devrim]

I wanted to see the Russel Crowe one even though I know it'll probably be lousy, for nostalgic reasons.


It was really bad.

Devrim

[Angry Young Man]

Not according to Glenn Beck. (http://tv.gawker.com/5558173/glenn-beck-loves-robin-hood)

Aside from his manipulated telling of the Robin Hood legend, he seems to have forgotten that in the early 13th Century there were no potatoes in England

[Angry Young Man]

according to mises, robin hood was actually a defended of property rights.
fuck (http://mises.org/daily/1492)

As Glen Beck has shown, you can manipulate the Robin Hood legend howsoever you wish. With this in mind, hurry up with the revolution - it best be while I'm still young enough to play the man in tights

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I think Santa is better :thumbup1:

[Angry Young Man]

I think Santa is better :thumbup1:

No Xbox 360 in my stocking says no he isn't

[ZeroNowhere]

Well, I always thought the tights somewhat foppish but I never knew he was actually transgendered.

heroinYou may have misread.


He failed the analogy part of the SATs.Critical reading:

1. Everett is one of the most ----- people I know, and is apparently insensitive to the effects of his miserliness on others.

A) generous
B) socialist
C) judicious
D) methodical
E) stingy

2. Although Thompson frequently ----- the value of education, he undertook to ----- his nephew's lamentable lack of schooling.

A) disparaged..mitigate
B) affirmed..research
C) communistised..socialise
D) exemplified..depict
E) overlooked..malign

3. Before blindly accepting the doctor's prognosis, we should remember that, because the available data is -----, the prognosis cannot be -----.

A) scientific..recorded
B) rational..interpreted
C) scanty..assured
D) socialist..NAZI!!!
E) extrinsic..doubted

Answers:

1. B
2. C
3. D