For our August meeting we read through Chapter 3 of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right ( Amazon ), ( Princeton Press ), by Quinn Slobadian. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote. To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking.