What Is the Malthusian Trap?

The Malthus disaster was brought up by Thomas Robert Malthus, and it mainly means that the growing population will sooner or later lead to insufficient food supply.

Malthus disaster

Malthus' disastrous population predictions have not been confirmed in the history of the two centuries.

Nobel Laureate in Economics, American Economist

In addition to pointing out the gap between Malthus's prediction and reality, Marxist economics also revealed more about Malthus's defense of irrational systems, and pointed out that "different social production methods have different laws of population growth and excessive growth." "While the worker population itself produces capital accumulation, it also produces means to make itself a relatively surplus population on an expanding scale. This is the unique population law of the capitalist mode of production."