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What does voluntarism mean?

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Noun
  1. (US) A reliance on volunteers to support an institution or achieve an end; volunteerism.
  2. (philosophy) A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
  3. (politics) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
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He grabbed power in a civil war, not a revolution, and advocated voluntarism and cadres to force Socialism rather than evolve it.
More recently, different groups have encouraged a spirit of voluntarism and giving among staff, faculty, and students.
For its part, the political discourse has remained close to the rhetoric of emulation and voluntarism of yesteryear.
However, there is at least one crucial distinction between Parsonian voluntarism and Kantian freedom.
Local voluntarism provided political training for all the nation's people, particularly its soldiers.
Instead, they insisted that only Christian-minded voluntarism could protect the weak and ameliorate misery.

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