The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12

try to establish for themselves a sane
system of society. This reformist, as
ISOLATION, whose charitable sowing OF
information might seem to assist the
workers, betrays its true character in
the September issue of its official or
gan, The Birth Control Revue.
Composed not of workers, but Of
idle, middle class and wealthy dab
blers, the Birth Control League is not
content with functioning as an ordin-
airy charitable organization. A false
system of pseudo-economy is advocat-
ed. The absurd theory that unemploy
ment, poverty, war and the ills of pres
ont day society are caused solely be-
cause there are too many people in
the world is strenuously propagated.
THIS theory was advocated by
4 Thomas Robert Nautilus, in his
book published in 1903 entitled, 'Prin-
ciples of Population" 1t is on NAL
thus theories, exploded long ago by
Karl Marx, that the Birth Control
League bases it's propaganda. NAL
thus declared that 1t was the tend
ency of population to increase faster
than food" He put forth the PROPOSE
ton that the population increases in
geOmetic ratio, while food increases
in arithmetical ratio"
Even the capitalist minded, so-called
economists have had to admit that
This formula is false. But the birth
control zealots have accepted the es-
sence of Malthus' false doctrines, and
have dubbed their philosophy, "Neo-
Malthusian," the name under which
the Birth Control League of England
functions. In this "Neo-Malthusian"
philosophy the Birth Control League
retains the theory of Nautilus that pow
erty arises from overpopulation.
INSTEAD Of recognizing that these
running sores of capitalism are in
herent in the system of production
now prevailing. this league declares
that by agitation, education, organ
iastion and legislation" all the evils
Of capitalism can be laid low and
everybody will be happy.
In an article entitled, "The Fascist
on Birth Control-An Italian Prob
lsm; Reply to Count Cippico," Pro
lessor Erward NJ East of Harvard,
takes issue with the fascist who at
the Institute of Politics recently held
= Williamstown, Mass, demanded
that Italy's surplus population" be
allowed to enter America. East re-
plies with a statement equally ASSN
inc.
g Says East, Population tends to
press with irresistible force upon the
rieans of subsistence within any Civ
On circumscribed unit. This thesis of
Nautilus has been proved beyond a
reasonable doubt. Under natural con-
Citions population increase is finally
depressed and stabilized by the inten-
sity of the strug gle for existence"
The growing army of unemployed
in italy is becoming too much of a
good thing for the Italian capitalists.
While an industrial reserve army is
an essential requirement for the per-
pStuotAOh VI inc Capitalist system, Tie
Increase of unemployed in Italy has
become so sharp that the desperation
of the workers is menacing the fas-
cist-capitalist rule. The count fears
revolt Of the workers against fascism,
and would relieve the pressure by
transferring portion of the sur
plus population to the United States,
which, however, has an unemploy-
ment problem of it's own.
pUT East does not want Italian i'm
~ migration. I'VE don't need these
people, that is ALL" he says. I'VE
produce enough of that quality ("the
dregs of the vat'') ourselves" East's
conclusion is that Italy should prac-
tice birth control, as well as all other
countries, and all will be well.
But those who have studied the
present system of production and its
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