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Oh, I suppose I'd like to connect Malthusian Thinking with Social Darwinism which perhaps had even more proponents. An example of the top of my head is in a short book The Duel by Anton Chekhov, one of the 'intellectuals' is an adherent and espouses social darwinist rhetoric.