Spain’s ‘Robin Hood’, Enric Duran, Who Funded An Anti-Capitalist Movement

22 April 2014

 - Between 2006 and 2008, Enric Duran took out 68 commercial and personal loans amounting to €492,000 (or roughly $678,00) from 39 banks in Spain. Never intending to repay the loans, Duran instead used the money to help fund those speaking out against capitalism. According to the Guardian, Duran’s protest “pushed the anti-capitalist movement into the light, just as many Spaniards were seeking alternatives to a system that had wreaked havoc on their lives.”

“I saw that on one side, these social movements were building alternatives but that they lacked resources and communication capacities,” Duran said. “Meanwhile, our reliance on perpetual growth was creating a system that created money out of nothing.”

The money Duran gave, he said, “generated a movement” by allowing those fighting against capitalism “to push forward with the construction of alternatives” and “build a powerful network that groups together these initiatives.”