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There is ambiguity as to whether it is only the market economy that has the power to override community in this way. Perhaps a large and highly authoritarian society can do so. Paul Gottfried argues that Classical Rome progressed some way in this direction but stalled before it became a modern political movement because it lacked mass production, mass consumption and the mass market which is the foundation for individual autonomy and separateness: the sense that individuals can, and should, speak only for themselves. Paul Edward Gottfried (1999), After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, pp 32–35. For brevity, Lean Logic discusses only the market economy in this context, but the question is not trivial, for some other models, such as a very powerful totalitarian society (see Unlean), might be able to go some way, for a time, in maintaining society without community.
