We find Marx frequently portrayed as depicting men and women as dominated by rational economic calculation when it was exactly Marx's point that it is the capitalist mode of production which forces such rationality upon us against all of the evidence as to what human beings are really all about. We find Marx portrayed as an economic determinist when it was precisely Marx's point that the realm of freedom begins where the realm of necessity ends and that it is only through struggle, political and personal, that we can achieve the command over our social and physical existence which will yield us that freedom.
David Harvey