The article criticizes some currently dominant modalities of determinism, distancing itself from randomized and post-modern thinking. We look to contribute to the sensitive objective explanation of the world in order to keep effective intervention open and conscious in the historical process. The argument presents a paradoxical and painful contrast between economic determinism and a restricted freedom that accompanies it, and then shows how Marxist thought allowed them to overcome the impasses in which both the deterministic naturalists, as well as the post- modern anti-determinists had found themselves. This step requires the demonstration of the development of the work process, in its ontological view (Lukacs), as well as the historic view (Marx), pointing to the effective materialism of social relations, as a means of distribution of singular beings together with the activities of production of its social existence. We conclude by showing how determination in Marxism is not simplistic, and therefore, is not based on an economic truism.
Marxism; determinism; history; determination; work