There’s one historical theory that people keep deluding themselves with, and it’s about time I pointed it out. Social banditry, or the Robin Hood theory is problematic at best and cultural misanthropy at worst. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/Y4TGyPIGKkw related: https://youtu.be/oa5M0B7sb5U ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Boessenecker, John. “California Bandidos.” Southern California Quarterly 80, i4 (Dec. 1, 1998), 419-434. Hall-Patton, Joseph. Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo. San Luis Obispo: California Polytechnic - San Luis Obispo thesis, 2016. http://www.digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1594/ Hobsbawm, Eric. Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: WW Norton & Company, 1965. https://amzn.to/2L6TDY0 Hobsbawm, Eric. Bandits. Rev. ed. New York: The New Press, 2000. https://amzn.to/2L4RagK Rediker, Marcus. Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailor, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2014. https://amzn.to/2OasYf4 Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2000. https://amzn.to/2JKq8tN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bandit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Murrieta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Pico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw) ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cy