Marxist determination means circumstance, not structural entrapment

Evidence

‘Determination’ does not mean, in other words, the kind of entrapment of which structuralists and Foucauldians speak; it refers, rather, to the givenness of the circumstance within which individuals make their choices, their lives, their histories. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 15

Categorization

• DEFINE: A precise disambiguation of Marxist ‘determination’ against Foucauldian/structuralist entrapment — the kind of clarification useful whenever the term comes up in adjacent reading.