Some thoughs about the history of "Philosophy of History" /part 12/

So that continues until then is considered by Malthus as the number of the population equals the available means of living, resulting in a revival that brings a new peak in the growth of the population, and from there to a new crisis. This, according to Malthus, is an everlasting natural law, and therefore those who, for one reason or another, fall into the ranks of the surplus population, need not be angry with the social order, but rather have to accept the cold-blooded situation. The only way to escape from the pressure of the population (its growth) is to reduce the birth rate especially in the case of the poor.

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The very birth of unnecessary people explains God's punishment for the first-born sin. Moreover, Malthus considers wars and epidemics as a normal means of purifying mankind from excess people, which is also sent to him by God as a punishment for his sinfulness.At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the so- neomaltoianism, a particular form of what is so called. the theory of permanent decline in fertility. Some economists at that time are trying to link this theory to the differential rent law open and developed by Rekardo / economist. According to them, the net income in agriculture is constantly decreasing not only due to the decrease of the fertility of the soil / its exhaustion / but also because of the fact that, along with the rise of the population, people are also going to cultivate the weaker land, which, as it is known in the same work fewer products.

This increases relative numbers of surplus people and makes it difficult to feed them. This dissonance between the means of subsistence and the growth of the population has become the main subject of reflection by many Western sociologists after the VWC. For example, in his book The Problem of the Population of the Commonwealth of the Nations, English sociologist Becker states that the British Isles of a total of 50 million Population 20 million is superfluous! Such views are also in the view of the American sociologist W. Fokt in his 1948 book "The Way to Salvation". In it, he compares the situation in which mankind has fallen after the war with the situation of a man forced to wear shoes of two numbers smaller than normal.

He advises us to stop being angry with the economic system because the cause of all suffering of humanity is overpopulation of the world. According to him, of the 145 million then US residents, 43 million were redundant. Japan has had to reduce its population from 80 to 10-12 million. In the USSR, 100 million people and the total population of the earth to be reduced to 900 or even 500 million people.