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Having read some Steiner years ago, he was from the tradition of German thought that included Goethe and Schiller which seemed rather religious/spiritual and therefore not Communist. I know that his movement was persecuted by the Nazis in the late 20s and 30s so he was certainly an anti-Nazi.
He did have some odd ideas that some would call occult, like his theories of color and the idea that you could heal mental deficiences by making a soul to soul relationship and drawing out the best of a person. He really did that in tutoring a mentally defective boy. And of course founded the Waldorf education movement.
When you remember that psychology was a very new idea in the 1920s, to me he seems like someone who was trying to develop some kind of science of psychology but who came from a true Christian tradition, not Qabalist like Freud and Jung.
So I would say, neither.
The main problem with his ideas today, is that they are "owned" by slavish disciples who simply imitate him and have totally failed to understand that he was trying to present examples of how anyone with the right intent, could figure this stuff out for themselves. Steiner was in touch with the voice of God within himself, and he wanted others to learn how to reach that.
So you probably won't learn much from his disciples, but if you can get English translations of his works, and there are quite a few, it is well worth while.