Any political movement or philosophy based on considering a part of humanity as subhuman is doomed to fail.

Some examples of who considers whom subhuman:

• Ayn Rand’s objectivism: anyone who isn’t committed to a path of heroic self-development and achievement.
• The Nazis: anyone outside the Master Race, particularly Jews and Slavs.
• The Soviets: anyone who opposes them, particularly if they are not far ideologically.
• The contemporary far left: anyone who supports Trump, doubts climate change, or that thinks something that could be considered racist.
• The contemporary far right: anyone who speaks about inequality, gender gap or climate change.
• Neoliberals: anyone who doubts that markets are perfectly efficient and structurally fair.
• Anticapitalists: anyone who sees valuable mechanisms and outcomes in capitalism.

And no, I don’t think that followers of Ayn Rand, Soviets, Nazis and the contemporary fringes of politics are all the same in every dimension (they are not the same!). But they do essentially share this quality of excluding others, and in regards to it they only differ in the target and intensity of its exclusion.

Considering an entire class of humans as subhumans (which basically means: they are expendable, particularly to realize your vision) is not just morally wrong. You do it at your own peril. I would venture to say, that fundamental error eventually destroys the entire political edifice.

There are no subhumans. Humans are subtle, interesting, unpredictable. Whoever you leave out, they are coming to get you. Better to start with the assumption that we’re all together in it, and take it from there. Let’s be ruthless to our lack of political imagination, rather than each other.

And yes, neoliberalism is definitely a political movement.