Malthusianism

Malthusianism is an ideology that claims that the exponential growth of the human population will lead to economic collapse. The idea comes from Thomas Robert Malthus who was hired by the British Royal Family to falsely claim that the causes of the French Revolution was due to population growth, rather than class conflict.

This ideology has become the basis of the degrowth movement and climate activists, who receive enormous funding from the ruling elites.

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. Lyndon LaRocuhe expresses this ability to increase the human population with technology as the "Potential Relative Population Density."

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 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.

See also

• Club of Rome