Celibacy 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 particul

Celibacy 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