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Write a critique of the Marxian Theory of Population and highlight its contemporary relevance.

  • Population Geography

Marx wrote no demographic treatise. His population argument sits inside Capital Volume I (1867) as the theory of relative surplus population — the claim that unemployment and poverty are manufactured by capital accumulation rather than by fertility. It is a powerful account of labour markets and a thin account of population. A fair critique must…

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  • The Theory Stated Precisely
  • The Four Forms Marx Distinguishes
  • The Critique
  • It Explains Unemployment, Not Fertility
  • It Dismisses Natural Limits Too Confidently
  • The Socialist Record Is an Awkward Fact
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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