In this article we will discuss the categories of human work, policy, training and emancipation in Marx and Lukács. From the work category, we will seek to understand policy, training and human empowerment as a basis for social training. On the basis of the ontological leap produced by the work category, the conditions and possibilities for the development of the other complexes fundamental to the formation of social wellbeing have historically materialised. By moving away from natural barriers, Lukács, in the wake of Marx, demonstrates how the double transformation, mediated by the work of human metabolism with nature, takes place in the material/social/historical formation of the human being, and thus becomes the basis of its entire social practice, and thus its emancipation. We will also propose about the ‘anti-social character’ of private property and of the State, and thus of policy to discern the origin of social problems and their substance. The policy is, according to Marx, a middle, historically and instrumental activity. This is something that needs to be overcome. This conception of politics, and of the state, rejects the view that it constitutes a human and social dimension in a permanent and structural manner.