Anthroposophy and its Opponents

GA 255b — 6 January 1920

Academic and Nationalistic Opponents I

Correction in the weekly publication “Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus” (Threefold Order of the Social Organism) January 6, 1920.

The defamation campaign against Rudolf Steiner Dr. Rudolf Steiner and the Federation for the Threefold Order of the Social Organism.

A large part of the German press is reporting that Dr. Rudolf Steiner and the League for the Threefold Order are associated with Bolshevism and Communism. At the same time, “he is ascertaining the names of all officers allegedly active in a reactionary sense and collecting material against them regarding actions in violation of international law on the basis of witness statements, which is then to be sent to the Entente for the purpose of extradition.” In contrast to this, we note that this report contains a slanderous untruth in every sentence and that the accusation of a connection with Bolshevism is a real absurdity that is easily recognized by anyone who is unbiased as a transparent machination. The alleged letter from Dr. Steiner or the Bund, which is supposed to serve as evidence, is also part of this. The Federation was brought into being in April 1919 in response to Dr. Rudolf Steiner's public appeal 'To the German People and the Cultural World'. Since its inception, it has been concerned exclusively with the public dissemination of the ideas set forth in Rudolf Steiner's fundamental book 'The Core Points of the Social Question' and works without the support of any party, solely in the spirit of healthy social development.

Stuttgart, January 6, 1920 Dr. Rudolf Steiner

Federation for the Threefold Social Organism
Prof. Dr. von Blume, Kühn, Leinhas, Kommerzienrat Molt, Dr. Unger