Put slightly differently, Weber and Marx assume a political exterior and subjective interior that is disharmonious with capitalism — political life featuring at least the promise of freedom, equality and popular sovereignty and a figure of subjective personhood bound to ideals of worth, dignity, self-direction, even soulfulness. It is precisely such an exterior and interior that neoliberal reason’s configuration of states, citizens and souls in the image of homo oeconomicus, and elimination of homo politicus, threaten to extinguish.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 218