Why does anthroposophy -- a blatantly racist doctrine which anticipated important elements of the Nazi worldview by several decades -- continue to enjoy a reputation as progressive, tolerant, enlightened and ecological? The details of Steiner's teachings are not well known outside of the anthroposophist movement, and within that movement the lengthy history of ideological implication in fascism is mostly repressed or denied outright. In addition, many individual anthroposophists have earned respect for their work in alternative education, in organic farming, and within the environmental movement. Nevertheless, it is an unfortunate fact that the record of anthroposophist collaboration with a specifically "environmentalist" strain of fascism continues into the twenty-first century.
And for a contrary view, provided by a commenter:
http://thebee.se/comments/PS/Staudenmaier.html
