There’s the educational side of Waldorf education and the occult and political sides. Another post has already addressed the educational side. On the occult side, Rudolf Steiner interacted closely with the founders of German and Austrian Theosophy and Ariosophy (i.e. Aryan Theosophy, an influence on Nazism), including the leaders of the German cult Aleister Crowley infamously joined, the OTO, which Steiner also represented for a time. Steiner became a front man for Alois Mailander, a Rosicrucian who practiced a form of the occult “sex magick” similar to Crowley’s. As far as Anthroposophy’s political orientation, as you’ve gathered, they tend to lean socialist, an orientation which goes back to a Swiss radical colony named Monte Verita where Steiner and the OTO rubbed shoulders with the likes of Bakunin and Lenin and other leaders of the revolutionary underground in the Bolshevik era. Monte Verita was kind of an early 20th century prototype for the hippie movement.
What’s the OTO? I tried looking it up.
The OTO was an Victorian/Edwardian occult society. IIRC, Alistair Crowley ( THE BEAST ), either belonged to it once or tried to belong to it and then broke away and founded his own.
That’s quite a twisted view from my understanding of Steiner.