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In contrast to Malthusianism, pro-growth Marxists (such as [[Deng Xiaoping]]) propose that humanity is not constrained in the same way as animals are when it comes to their population growth.<ref>[[The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man]] by [[Frederick Engels]]</ref> Lyndon LaRocuhe expresses this ability to increase the human population with technology as the "[[Potential Relative Population Density]]." | In contrast to Malthusianism, pro-growth Marxists (such as [[Deng Xiaoping]]) propose that humanity is not constrained in the same way as animals are when it comes to their population growth.<ref>[[The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man]] by [[Frederick Engels]]</ref> Lyndon LaRocuhe expresses this ability to increase the human population with technology as the "[[Potential Relative Population Density]]." | ||
[[Fox Green]] of the [[Space Commune]] has made a documentary called Consumerism: Can we buy a better world? which offers a critique of degrowth and | Marx and Engels were major critics of Malthusian population theory. Though they accepted natural selection and other elements of [[Darwinism]], they rejected the influence Malthus had on both ''The Origin of Species'' and Darwin's work in general. This split later became a sharpened contradiction with the rise of [[Mendelism-Morganism]], which was viscerally critiqued by [[Trofim Lysenko]], the infamous Soviet agronomist. While the Mendelist-Morganists promoted [[Metaphysics|Metaphysical]] concepts such as genes and random mutation from their sterilized, controlled, cobweb-ridden laboratories, Lysenko experimented in the fields barefoot with Soviet farmers and used [[Dialectical Materialism]] as the basis of his scientific method. Lysenko, his colleagues, and their teacher (the agronomist [[I.V. Michurin]]) arguably synthesized what is now commonly accepted as epigenetics. | ||
[[Fox Green]] of the [[Space Commune]] has made a documentary called "''Consumerism: Can we buy a better world?''" which offers a critique of degrowth and Malthusianism.<ref>[https://youtu.be/0VbWe5SM9Lg Consumerism: Can we buy a better world?] on [[YouTube]]</ref> | |||
== See also == | == See also == |