Would you ever consider stealing money and distribution of it to working class people

[Stephen Colbert]

Robin Hood gogo?

[Jimmie Higgins]

I'd say choice one and three at the same time. "Yes" if I could get away with it because that would just be awesome. But only in this hypothetical situation where I knew I could get away with it because (#3) it - by itself - really doesn't do much about organizing class struggle - it's sort of like insurrectionary charity. Insurrecharity?

[Il Medico]

I voted "yes but only if I could get away with it" mainly because swooping in wearing Green tights and stealing money from posh folk seems extremely awesome/funny. Kinda like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT-MmyEIr6E
But with money.

[Optiow]

If I could get away with it, yes.

But there are better ways of fighting the class war then just stealing.

So I want to vote twice.

[Adi Shankara]

being Robin hood sounds cool, but it's delusional, and would only hurt the poor people in the long run.
I'd do it if I knew it wouldn't hurt poor people in the long run, but to be honest, it's based in fantasy, and the effects would end up hurting the poor more so than anything else; they'd end up either having their taxes raised, there would be revenge. In the movies, this never happens, but in real life, if money gets stolen from the rich and given to the poor, then that entire village would be burned to the ground, the people beaten to death, and basically forced into further labor to make up for the "Lost property".

also, you know the old parable, and it applies here: "if you give a man a fish..."

being Robin hood is pointless, and can stop pain for a while, but as a long term solution, it solves nothing. Marxism is the only way.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

If I knew that I could get away with it then yeah I would.

I feel as though there are better ways to go about helping the working class,but hey you have to start somewhere right?

[Weezer]

It's not stealing if it's their money.

[Revy]

If you could get away with it, the answer is obvious. Yes...

[Chambered Word]

What are you talking about, I do it all the time.

[Widerstand]

I want to vote 1, 3 and 4. That would sort of make me a rebel chic leftist though.

[bcbm]

no because it is illegal and wrong

[DragonQuestWes]

As a last resort I would. But to get away with it, it needs to be well planned.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Expropriation from the hands of the capitalists.

[ContrarianLemming]

It depends how much money it is, if it's not an entirely serious amount then I'd steal it knowing I'd probably get caught, assuming there was a very good chance I'd succeed, and I can imagine a lot of public sympathy for what I did so I might get an easy pardon. I don't see anything morally objectionable wit it, nor do I see anything wrong with stealing food and such.
At the risk of sounding Crimethnk-ish I did once take food and give it to a homeless person, but it was special circumstance, I had never seen anyone more pathetic looking, he looked like he was dying, literally dying, everyone just walked past him on the street, staring at this pale shade of a man.

[RedRise]

I'd do it if it was really going to make a difference, more willingly if I had a good chance of getting away with it. But going to the effort to steel money and then redistribute it is probably not worth the possible consequences.
I also agree with the mention of 'teach a man to fish'. We should be focussing on making working conditions better and raising wages and improving healthcar and all that kind of thing. Stealing a whole lot of money and giving it to people is only going to help in a very short term way.

[Ricardo]

At the risk of sounding Crimethnk-ish I did once take food and give it to a homeless person, but it was special circumstance, I had never seen anyone more pathetic looking, he looked like he was dying, literally dying, everyone just walked past him on the street, staring at this pale shade of a man.

People always have an aversion to sounding like they were influenced by crimethinc, but honestly I don't see a problem with it, or stealing and giving to the poor. I obviously know that this will in no way bring about socialism, but it does improve people's lives in the short term. Also, if a group of people were to rob food, supplies, and money and distribute it to poor communities, along with other community organizing type things, like free lunches, drug rehab, I feel as if this would strengthen the bond between the group and the working class and gain much needed support.

If a people's government won't provide for them, but a radical organization would, don't you think this would get a lot of support, and turn a lot of people onto socialism or at least questioning the system?