From A New Earth and a New Humanity by Oliver L. Reiser, 1942
. . . humanism is opposed to some of the emphases of communism, as follows :1. Marxist interpretation seems to be committed to the materialistic theory, the doctrine of economic determinism. Dialectical materialism holds that economic laws control the movements of social change. Humanism finds it difficult to accept this economic determinism, just as it has difficulty with a religious determinism (such as is embodied in Calvinism) . . . There is no room in humanism for predestination, economic, religious, or scientific.
2. Humanism does not believe in any �truth� once for all revealed. There is no finality or absoluteness in our human �truths.� The communists seem to look upon Marx pretty much as the ancient Jews looked upon Moses, or the later Christians on Jesus. Such a view inclines one to look backward in time rather than forward. Humanism believes that new �truths� are still to be discovered.
3. Another difference between humanism and communism is that the communists believe in direct action ; communism accepts a revolutionary technique—the new order is to be introduced through violence. Humanism, on the contrary, is opposed to the use of force as a method of social reform. It believes in reason and persuasion in producing social change.
New York : Creative Age Press, 1942, pages 61-2.
Comment Still a rather rosy view of communism. Any kind of action was deemed proper by Lenin, including illegal actions under the laws of the countries wherever the plague had spread.The use of force was not needed for perverted propaganda or plain disinformation ; or smuggling narcotics to America at some later dates. This was one of the unclear aspects of the communist presence in the U.S.A. —: the internal subversion did not need force, nor did in fact have any other than by corrupting intelligences. — (WPT)