ABSTRACT
The anti-imperialist ideology criticizes the neo-Malthusian position. It purports that the concept of “overpopulation” is unscientific and that all such expressions as “population explosion,” and “population bomb” should be avoided. The Cultural Revolution in China has, among other things, implied that the contacts between rural and urban populations have become much more intense than before. The neo-Malthusian position still implies that population growth is considered a primary issue. Social reforms are considered necessary not for their own sake, but rather in order to achieve population control. There are many less-developed countries that could doubtless feed a population considerably larger than their present one. The present rapid population growth in the less-developed countries is a consequence of a heavy decline in mortality and in particular in infant mortality. It seems possible to discern four different ideologies in the area of population growth: the moral, the nationalist, the neo-Malthusian, and the anti-imperialist.
