The ideology of population control.

The pitfall of neoMalthusian liberalism is precisely its "rationalism" - that it assumes a universal rationality and forgets that in a class society there exists class rationality.

Abstract

The decision to have a number of children by a family located within the working peasantry or the appropriated masses is essentially a rational decision, a judgment of their social environment. The pitfall of neoMalthusian liberalism is precisely its "rationalism" - that it assumes a universal rationality and forgets that in a class society there exists class rationality. The demand for population control may be rational in one class situation, but not necessarily in another. The specific historical relation between high rates of population growth in particular social groups is obscured when the phenomenon is defined as the "population problem". Its core assertion is that people are poor because they are too many. Exploitation is reduced to poverty and the explanation of poverty becomes the poor themselves.