Maybe I have it wrong in the actual historical context. But the phrase is used in the Marxist idiom today. I just Googled it and got 12,400,000 hits! The original history and meaning of the story have been lost. What is the favorite Democrat term of scorn and derision? “The rich.”
Liberals turn every good thing to, uh, trash.
They had to corrupt the story of Robin Hood because they are the thieving Sheriff of Nottingham kind of guys.
Economy stifling taxation is patriotic and building a business and creating jobs is evil.
The freedom restored by the Magna Carta got the English economy moving. The English were free to own land, raise pigs and cattle and ate meat, which made them strong enough to draw a longbow with a hundred to a hundred fifty pound draw.
Nobody on the continent could do that be cause their economy was serf based and almost nobody but the very rich could eat meat.
Today’s commies hate that the English were the forefathers of modern freedom, and that they grew strong by eating meat.
During the hundred years war, some English longbows were captured by the French. they had everybody in the army, from peasant to lord, try to string them, and nobody could.
The free economy led to meat eating and strength, which led to use of the longbow, which enabled less than twenty five thousand English to overcome two hundred thousand French Knights in heavy armor and on horseback.
In my college days, I remember the disdain the commie professors had for the English. took me a while to figure out why.
Remember, the American Revolutionaries were originally just demanding the god given rights and freedom of Englishmen.
The money that Robin Hood took from the Royalty was the unreasonable taxes taken at sword point from poor subjects in the kingdom.
He returned the “robbed” taxes to the poor subjects that it originally came from....
He didn’t rob the royalty of their “hard earned money”.
This is wholly unlike Obama and other Marxists who want to confiscate hard earned money from the wage earners and distribute to other people who didn’t earn it or pay it.....
We could use a good “Robin Hood” right now.......