Does anyone have to personally identify with a term in order for it to be useful? I think it's quite easy to look at recent history and identify a largely top-

Does anyone have to personally identify with a term in order for it to be useful? I think it's quite easy to look at recent history and identify a largely top-down political/economic/philosophical movement embodied by the likes of Thatcher and Regan which has been impactful on the current state of the world. I don't see why Neoliberalism isn't a perfectly good name for it.