Social, political and economic theory proposed by the English economist Thomas Robert Malthus in the late eighteenth century. It focused on the disproportion of slow economic development relative to high population growth, which would lead to the collapse of civilization due to lack of resources to maintain it. This became an excuse for some groups (mainly economists) who developed forced-equilibrium methods, almost always privileging capital and discarding the population with fewer resources. An exception would be neomalthusianism, with anarchist adherents who proposed educating in birth control until technology solved the problem of the lack of means to keep the proletariat.
