The Irish Potato famine of the 1840 is one of the most tragic chapters in its history, and much discussion has centred on British Culpability for the extent of the disaster. What most people don't know is that much of the prevailing philosophical ideology that influenced attitudes among the ruling classes was the direct result of Thomas Malthus demographic arguments about the nature of population growth. His work was so influential that both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace studied him extensively such that the theory of Natural Selection drew inspiration from his work. History would ultimately prove him wrong, but the backlash came in the form of widespread reformist trade union activism, which Carl Marx, then travelling throughout London, used to crystallise his own socialist theories.
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