There is this weird cult I’ve encountered quite a few times now, of people who associate themselves with a politician named Lyndon LaRouche. Many media outlets describe them as “far-right,” but LaRouchites, as I will call them, themselves decry this label, insisting they are not…
My understanding was Malthus was hired by some British capitalists back in the day to come up with an academic argument as to why the poors can and should be oppressed and even left to die. The flowery language only serves to package the argument in a less evil phrasing.