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CLEP Intro to Sociology

Category - Rural&Urban

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Karl Marx and Frederick Engel did not subscribe to Malthus’s belief that population growth had the potential to outstrip food supplies. What did they believe would keep that from happening? Choose all that apply.

  1. Increase in capital to allow for business growth
  2. Technological advances that could increase food production
  3. Class uprising to take food from upper class
  4. None of the above
Explanation

Answers: A and B - Marx and Engels believed that an increase in capital along with technological advances would allow the food supply keep pace with population growth. They argued that the larger amount of capital would produce business growth while the technological advances would drive more efficient food production. Although they supported a class uprising to redistribute resources, they did not see this as a means to increase the food supply.

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