Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 107

Continuing my commentary on the 33rd paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier's Anthroposophy and Ecofascism.

"Industrialists, on the other hand, showed a keen interest in Steiner's notions."

"Industrialists" is perhaps technically not incorrect; there were, after all, two of them involved. Both had been connected with Steiner and Anthroposophy for over a decade. One was Emil Molt, the other Carl Unger. Both were longtime personal students of Steiner's, and both enthusiastically embraced the Threefold Social Order. They were both industrialists in that they owned small-scale factories that employed workers numbering in the low hundreds, Molt making cigarettes, and Unger making machinists tool dies. It is misleading to imply that Steiner's Threefold Social Order attracted widespread interest among the malefactors of great wealth.Those most interested were those already familiar with Steiner's work. This, more than any other factor explains why the Threefold Social Order did not succeed on a large scale.Trying to paint Steiner as popular among the oppressors of the German working class is just silly.