《经济学动态》1981年第5期,刊载了署名思玉的《人口在社会发展中的作用问题》一文。这篇文章坚持了斯大林在《辩证唯物主义与历史唯物主义》这部著作中所提出的人口增长对社会发展起促进或延缓作用的观点,讲到对人口作用应恰当估计、具体分析等意见,这是正确的。但是这篇文章认为马克思恩格斯一再阐明的“两种生产”的观点,即直接生活的 Economic Dynamics, Issue 5, 1981, published a paper entitled “The Role of Population in Social Development” by Sizhu. This article insists Stalin’s view that the population growth promoted or delaying the development of society as proposed in his book Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism speaks of the opinion that the role of the population should be properly estimated and analyzed specifically, this is correct. However, this article argues that Marx and Engels have repeatedly stated the view of “two kinds of production,” that is, direct living