Hodgson's critiques of Marxism are irrelevant to most contemporary Marxists because they are not economic reductionists, do not believe in just two classes locked in continuous battle, and do not have a teleological view of history. Hodgson's biological metaphor is very useful for the Marxist...

Hodgson claims that Marxism is incompatible with Darwinian biological evolution. That was true of earlier Socialist and Communist theories of economic determinism, but it is not true of the contemporary generation of critical Marxists.