Malthus was ANTI SOCIALIST.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus
He argued that no matter what you do, there will always be starvation.
He did not argue that unless we do something, there will be starvation.
He thought that poverty was ok, because instead of socialism, when everyone dies at the same time, the lazy and stupid people died.
Many here would vote for him.
Social Engineering Is Doomed To Failure. That’s what Malthus was all about. Not Crisis! Let’s Socially Engineer!
But people think the opposite
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus
Malthus argued that two types of checks hold population within resource limits: positive checks, which raise the death rate; and preventive ones, which lower the birth rate. The positive checks include hunger, disease and war; the preventive checks, abortion, birth control, prostitution, postponement of marriage and celibacy.[26] Regarding possibilities for freeing man from these limits, Malthus argued against a variety of imaginable solutions.
Malthus thought these things were good, because keeping things within resource limits is good, because if you don’t, then there’s starvation.
Liberals call it the Malthus Problem, or something like that. They want some sort of socially engineered society, which is actually going to be miserable, but they know that without major population control, their schemes will fail, because the natural order without things like war, poverty, etc, there would be mass famine. Social Engineering to get rid of war and poverty fails because of the Malthus problem.