In the preface to " The Ultimate Resource 2, " his 1996 revision of the original, Simon said Malthusian theory was too much at odds with observable facts.
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He will be a constant irritant, nipping at Dole's heels, getting on his last nerve, prattling on about the gold standard, enterprise zones, flat taxes, von Hayek and Malthusian theory.
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This is one of the earliest expressions of what has come to be called the Malthusian theory of war, in which wars are caused by expanding populations and limited resources.
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One critic of Neo-Malthusian theory ( but not of birth control and abortion in general ), was Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Party and main architect of the Soviet Union.
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Many critics believe that the basis of Malthusian theory has been fundamentally discredited in the years since the publication of " Principle of Population ", often citing major advances in agricultural techniques and modern reductions in human fertility.
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Another one of the 19th century critics of Malthusian theory was Karl Marx who referred to it as " nothing more than a schoolboyish, superficial plagiary of De Foe, Sir James Steuart, Townsend, Franklin, Wallace " ( in " Capital ", see Marx's footnote on Malthus from " Capital "-reference below ).
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Marx and Engels described Malthus as a " lackey of the bourgeoisie . " Socialists and communists believed that Malthusian theories " blamed the poor " for their own exploitation by the capitalist classes, and could be used to suppress the proletariat to an even greater degree, whether through attempts to reduce fertility or by justifying the generally poor conditions of labour in the 19th century.
