Everyone who belive in malthusianism should start from themself.
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Yes, say it for the people in the back!
Not saying I’m in for all that, but how does reducing the number of work force helps the bourgeoisie? As far as I know they rely on a surplus of work force to keep wages low, otherwise you can’t fire and hire people at will. I remember reading in a book that after the Black Plague peasants had one of the “best” living standards for that epoch because there were so few people that were able to work that they could “dictate” what a fair wage was, and it makes sense, so how does this work? Or is it something like replacing Black/Latin/Asian work force with white proletarian work force?
The # of workers is another contradiction of capitalism: you’re correct that they want a reserve army of labor to keep wages down, but at the same time too many people counts as a “surplus population” that can have revolutionary potential, and be a burden in innummerable ways. Capitalists either have to start wars to kill them off, resettle the ones in the core country, find ways to avoid paying for their well-being, find ways to cripple their revolutionary potential, etc.
Masses of pissed of peasants ( a “surplus population” who were becoming increasingly unnecessary in the newly industrializing periphery countries ) formed the backbone of every successful communist movement in the 20th century. The malthusians and neo-malthusians like Bill Gates ( as well as first world anti-natalists, pushing the language of choice and “empowerment” and scaremongering about third world overpopulation just like any white supremacist ) are scheming to find ways to slow down birth rates in poorer countries because of this: they’re very aware of the revolutionary potential of the third world, and want to find ways to tune the population numbers to desired levels.
Makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation!
