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Spain’s ‘Robin Hood’ Funded Anti-Capitalist Movement with Bank Swindle
In recent interviews from the lam, Enric Duran predicts ‘transformation of the state and capitalism as we know it today’
by Lauren McCauley
Enric Duran in 2010. (Photo: Joseba Barrenetxea Altuna/ Creative Commons/ Flickr)
Though living on the lam after swindling almost half a million euros from banks across Spain, Enric Duran—the notorious “Robin Hood of Spain”—said he is still dedicated to fighting capitalism.
In an exclusive Skype interview from an undisclosed location, the anti-capitalist activist from Catalan told the Guardian that he was “proud” of his action, saying that the money that he farmed out to social causes working against capitalism “generated a movement.”
Between 2006 and 2008, 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.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/04/spains-robin-hood-funded-anti-capitalist-movement-with-bank-swindle/
