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The Malthus Fraud

Robert Dees

出版	Commons Press, 2024-01-26
主題	Political Science / GeneralSocial Science / General
ISBN	173748109X9781737481096
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ayRi0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The defeat of the British government by American revolutionaries and the role of the laboring classes in overthrowing the French monarchy in the late 1700s inspired confidence among working people and fear among the elites, posing the need for an ideological counterattack. The Essay on Population was Malthus's contribution to this battle of ideas. He argued that working people, by "overpopulating," have only themselves to blame for their poverty, that the form of government and economy play no role, and this condition cannot be changed by government action or popular revolution.The fact that there is not a single historical ex¬ample that supports his doctrine has had no effect on its continuing popularity among today's propagandists for the status quo. This is be¬cause it never was a scientific theory, but a religious-political dogma, more akin to antisemitism and racism.