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"The voluntarist character of socialism is, in truth, no less evident—despite the fact that it is less understood by its critics—than its deterministic background...In this process, every word, every Marxist act, resounds with faith, will, heroic and creative conviction, whose impulse it would be absurd to seek in a mediocre and passive determinist sentiment."