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:Robin Hood is a perfect story of abuse of government upon the lowly. Robin took back the taxes collected from that government and gave it all back to the people to whom it rightfully belonged. The more one reads the stories or views the Errol Flynn picture, the less and less a Democratic theme it is. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 14:22, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
:Robin Hood is a perfect story of abuse of government upon the lowly. Robin took back the taxes collected from that government and gave it all back to the people to whom it rightfully belonged. The more one reads the stories or views the Errol Flynn picture, the less and less a Democratic theme it is. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 14:22, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
I think we need to be very, very wary about thinking of Robin Hood in modern terms of "socialism", "conservative" etc. We also need to take care to differentiate between historical truth and Hollywood versions.
England between 1066 and the late fifteenth century was a feudal state. King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham's taxation was no different from that of King Richard the Lionheart, King William the Conqueror or any other king. Peasants owed lealty to their liege lord and were expected to lay down their very lives for him. They also paid tithes to the Church. They were very unlikely to have or use cash.
The legend of Robin Hood harks back to pre-Norman England, a smaller, freer nation. His rejection of feudal constraints alone was enough to make him a hero. The "robbing from the rich" idea came much, much later.