马克思的人口理论

Marx's Theory of Population

马克思的人口理论,是在批判资产阶级人口理论和其它人口理论中建立起来的。在马克思以前,流行的人口理论主要有资产阶级古典经济学的人口理论,马尔萨斯的人口理论和空想社会主义的人口理论。古典经济学产生于十七世纪,完成于十九世纪初,是新兴资产阶级的经济学说。

Before Marx, the popular theories of population then existed were that of the economists of Classieal school, Malthus and Utopian socialists. In 1940s, Marx had been studying problems of population from a communist position. In Marx’s "CAPITAL" there were significant formulations about his theory of population, principally, Marx’s theory of population contains: the Principle of "two kinds of reprodution"; the principle concerning the mode of production deciding the population development; the principle of significant role played by population in social developtnent; and the principle of "excess population". The historic merits of Marx"s was the application of dialectical materialism and historical materialism to the studying of population, and Marx therein founded the sole scientific demography and enabled a revolutionary historic transformation in the field of population theory.