Was Robin Hood a COMMUNIST?

[Afghan]

Was he? :P

[Smyg]

Illegalist.

[Afghan]

Well , he was taking money from the rich , and distributing it among the poor , wasn't he? : )

[Ballyfornia]

He was a Liberal

[Commissar Rykov]

He was a fictional character and possibly a migrant farmer from Ireland.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

He was clearly a Focoist who later became corrupted by that Monarchist Richard Lionheart :D

[Erratus]

I would say a social democrat. Seems more into the welfare state idea than publicly owned means of production. But the term social democrat has socialist roots, and in Capitalist America socialism is the same thing as communism, ergo yes, he was a communist! :lol:

[ZeroNowhere]

No.

[Ernesto Che Makuc]

He was a guy with a green dress who stole from the reach and gave it to the more deserving poor

[The Insurrection]

He was part of the nobility and never actually existed.

[Zealot]

Fictional story to keep the masses pacified.

[Stork]

I'd imagine this legend became popularthe same way Christianity did with the serfs.
ie. providing hope for retribution to landlords and reward for labour and subjugation.

[RadioRaheem84]

A liberal, no doubt. Take little from the rich, give to the poor, maintain class relations.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Robin Hood was a cool guy.

[Bronco]

I don't think it's really clear whether Robin Hood was just a myth or not, seems most likely that someone of the name did exist but that he's been romanticised somewhat, kind of like Jesus. In any event though, I don't think you could really label him a Communist.

[Rooster]

Stealing money from the rich to give to the poor isn't appropriating the means of production.

[Yugo45]

Yes, he was a big fan of the Manifesto.

[Iron Felix]

No, he was a Trotskyo-fascist counter-revolutionary.

[Smyg]

He was clearly a Focoist who later became corrupted by that Monarchist Richard Lionheart :D

Holy shit, I just realised that Robin Hood and his merry men were actual, in the stories, primitive Focoists. :ohmy: Guerrilla warfare, small vanguards with popular support, rurally based with the Sherwood forest and all... shit.

[Thirsty Crow]

Well , he was taking money from the rich , and distributing it among the poor , wasn't he? : )
Communists do not advocate primarily that the state engages in a redistribution of wealth. We advocate for direct workers' control over production (which then would also result in altered patterns of distribution of the social product - in a higher living standard for a good deal of a population) and an ultimate abolition of capital.

The point is not to try to fix the symptoms of the disease, but rather to eliminate the causes.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

No, he was definitely an anarcho-communist.

[Psy]

No, even if we go by early versions of the story before we get into Robin Hood trying to pay the ransom for the release of King Richard I, Robin Hood is a yeoman that is basically trying to liberate the peasants so they too can become yeoman thus basically leading a petite-beourgeisie insurgency, to liberate the peasants from their lords and turn them into land owning small time capitalists.

[Misanthrope]

Well , he was taking money from the rich , and distributing it among the poor , wasn't he? : )

That's not communism , : )

[Connolly16ir.net]

Was he? :P

No, he was (presuming his existence) more of a liberal distributionist. He recognised monarchy, i.e. a system of a class and hirearchy.

[#FF0000]

No he wasn't.

Dude just hated the king that took over while Richard the Lionheart was out in the Crusades

y'all uncultured.

[Smyg]

You used "y'all" and "uncultured" in the same sentence. Your argument is invalid.

[Book O'Dead]

Was he? :P

A communist in leotards? No, I say, NEVER!

[Tommy4ever]

He was a social bandit. Read some Hobsbawm guys. :)

[Invader Zim]

He didn't exist.

[RED DAVE]

Just finished doing research on Robin, Marion and the Merry Dudes for a forthcoming book. He never existed, but at various times in British history, tales about him were current among the peasants and served as a kind of focus of discontent. This continued even into modern times. For example, the movie starring Errol Flynn,made in the late 1930s, I believe, has clear antifascist and Popular Front elements to it. As a counter-example, the movie made recently, starring Russell Crowe, could be said to be a libertarian Robin, who is primarily interested in his own problems and is against taxes.

Just as an interesting sideline, during the 1950s, there was a very popular TV show made in England about Robin, Marion and the boys. Turns out that the show, which was actually produced by Disney, was written almost entirely by blacklisted American writers who constantly introduced themes of social conflict into the show.

RED DAVE

[thefinalmarch]

When it comes to revleft's most irrelevant threads, this is certainly right up there.

[ZeroNowhere]

You used "y'all" and "uncultured" in the same sentence. Your argument is invalid.
I'd say that it was greatly improved.

[Искра]

When it comes to revleft's most irrelevant threads, this is certainly right up there.
And where can I find relevant threads? :ohmy:

[thefinalmarch]

And where can I find relevant threads? :ohmy:
They discuss some pretty hectic shit in the super secret admin forum, I hear.

Quick, everyone put on your tinfoil hats

[Искра]

I can only pull out my Manowar sword (http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/8465673/Manowar+Sword.jpg)!