Continuing my commentary on the 25th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier's Anthroposophy and Ecofascism.
Steiner dedicated a book to Haeckel because he appreciated Haeckel's efforts and found some very useful aspects in them. He was not then, nor was he ever, in complete agreement with everything Haeckel said. That this fact continues to be ignored by so many critics of Anthroposophy speaks either to their ignorance of Steiner and his work or to a deliberate distortion thereof.
Turning back to Peter Staudenmaier, we read, "...from [Haeckel] Anthroposophy inherited its environmentalist predilections, its hierarchical model of human development...". Peter Staudenmaier apparently feels Steiner incapable of original thought, his role limited to propagating the worst excesses of whomever the anti-fascists have been able to link to National Socialism.
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