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Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was welcomed by Marx and Engels, who saw it as similar to their methodology, but applied to the natural world. Following G. A. Cohen's analytical reconstruction of historical materialism, and the difficulties of the rationalist underpinnings Cohen gives it, some authors have viewed this interest in Darwin as indicative that Marx and Engels understood historical materialism to operate in a manner akin to natural selection. In particular, the work of Alan Carling, which proposes that market and military competition selects for greater development of the means of production, is very promising in this regard. But such a selective mechanism is not sufficient to underpin historical materialism, as some criticisms show. An analysis of imitation is necessary to bolster the theory. Furthermore, the means by which superior productive power translate into competitive advantage need to be expounded.
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