Bandits
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SummaryThe myth of Robin Hood has not only created a long lasting fairy tale for our youth it has also created the definition of what Eric Hobsbawm calls a social bandit: one who gives to the poor by taking from the rich. Hobsbawm uses the myth of Robin Hood to identify bandits who have reached a certain plateau in their regional societies to be declared “social” bandits. These social bandits were supposed to have been pre-political demonstrators on behalf of the peasant population against those who had power in society. Alongside the definition of what a social bandit was supposed to emulate Hobsbawm gives criteria for who a social bandit was: mostly comprised of peasants in dire economic straits. However both the image of so-called social bandits and who a social bandit was in Hobsbawm’s view and also the view of peasant’s themselves were mere psychological creations; the reality of who their celebrated bandits does not qualify them for Hobsbawm’s definition of “social” bandits specifically in the Chinese region.
Table of Contents- Research dealing with so called 'social' bandits of specific areas in Latin America and also China .
- The bandits of Guangdong China are a direct contradiction to who Hobsbawm believed made up most the population of bandits in society.
- Social banditry in the modern world still remains in certain regions, and rather than disappearing it is merely evolving.
- Another difference between past and present in modern society's classification of terrorists.
- The social bandit defined by Eric Hobsbawm is a noble idea>
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