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Surely the one child policy is more Malthusian than anything else, and Malthus was very far from communist.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Surely the one child policy is more Malthusian than anything else, and Malthus was very far from communist.
- refurb 12y agoWas Malthus advocating forced abortions? If not, the Chinese are up to something else.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoCelibacy for the poor was his preferred method. And three very prominent opponents of Malthus are Marx, Engels and Lenin. The one child policy is not particularly communist. edit - Also, China has an insanely long literary history, if I was going to place bets I'd start looking for the sources of the one-child policy somewhere in there before going to people like Malthus or Marx. That said, the policy is without a doubt far more Malthusian than it is Marxist. edit2 - here's a guess - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Lord_Shang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Lord_Shang