Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population exercised for three consecutive generations.
Kropotkin critiques the negative impact of Malthus's ideas on economic thought.
Share
More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.
None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…
Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for existence’ in the animal world, and its applications to human affairs.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
Other voices in this conversation
