Was Robin Hood a conservative or a liberal?

Answer 1

Ah… It would be difficult to tell.
From the little I know about the character, it appears he was a criminal leading a gang of criminals.
As for “Rob from the rich to give to the poor.”, the “rich” is the government.
It sets a very poor example to steal something that isn’t yours.
I much prefer “The little red hen” and “The ant and the grasshopper”.
Both of which I would tag as conservative.

Answer 2

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while it is difficult to prepone the modern ideas to an age gone by it can be said that the nature of his struggle was fight for justice. The knights who conspired to usurp the throne of the king engaged in wars indistant lands represented factors who gather wealth without attention to law. Robin Hood's struggle was for justice and fairness. The means he usedwere appropriate for his age and he cannot be faulted for it. If conservative was exclusively for maintenance of the prevailing order hewas a conservative since he was in favour of keepkng the throne for the rightful claimant.But his helping those affected by the injusticeat the hands of the usurpers had a liberal streak.

Answer 3

It would be difficult to call him a liberal because he wasn't a coward, although liberals could see him as an architect of "the redistribution of wealth", which is their essence.

I can't see him being a conservative because he didn't work hard in life, doing an honorable profession.

Answer 4

Have to agree that it is difficult to compare the actions of a man in 12th century England to current day US politics.

But based on his view that wealth had to redistriubuted from the rich to the poor, you could argue that, based on the US definitions of being a conservative or liberal, that he was a liberal. A law breaking liberal who had no respect for authority.

Answer 5

i be conscious of which party would not like that tale. Ayn Rand wrote approximately it in "Atlas Shrugged". A pirate interior the story became committed in combating the parable of Robin Hood. Libertarians do no longer like it in any respect.

Answer 6

He was a feudalist/royalist in favor of the strict application of the law of primogeniture, with a drizzle of anarchism and a twist of Saxon nationalism.

(Hint: Don't apply 21st-century political categories to a fictional character presumed to have lived, oh, about 900 years ago. Is Michael Moore a Gracchian, a sans-culotte, or a follower of Creon??)

Answer 7

He sold that which was not his, gave most of it to his hoodlum friends and paid the locals for "protection" from justice...yep he is a liberal.

Answer 8

He was a socialist. He took from those who had and gave to the community to divide it. The govt he was rebelling against was communist. They took money from the people to feed the government.

Answer 9

I think of him as a liberal.

Answer 10

Is Santa Clause left of centre or right of centre?