Valery Kuvakin. Fundamentals of Modern Humanism (№ 408875)

Humanism as a social phenomenon (that is, humanistic organizations and movements) cannot turn into a political party or ideology, since by doing so it betrays itself as a worldview, loses its privacy, personality, humanity and universalism. If humanism becomes a political program or ideology, then it turns from a goal into a means of struggle for power, which, by definition, cannot be the power of one and all. It necessarily has its own bosses and subordinates, leaders and executors ... Any attempt to turn a humanistic movement or organization into a political party or ideology is doomed to failure, to perversion of humanistic ideals and real social functions of humanism. All this does not diminish, but on the contrary, enhances the significance of the political component of humanism ... The spiritual core of humanism as a social force, as a collective worldview should be a moral social force. Its general political task is to humanize the political consciousness of a citizen, the practice of political parties and the state.