• @knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    81 year ago

    Wasn’t Malthus basically just some lackey academic who came up with his whole theory as a justification for continued and further oppression of the working classes?

    • @xenautika@lemmygrad.ml
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      61 year ago

      yes, Malthus helped to justify the continual colonization of people, justify racism and violence against populations for ‘overbreeding’ and other heinous accusations, and to endorse eugenics as a necessary political policy