Disconnected and utility-maximizing individuals. This interpretation is also consistent with the legal definition of citizenship, since the citizen/consumer enjoys certain rights and liberties protected by the state’s system of jurisprudence. Finally, this view is consistent with an economic interpretation of political life. Proponents of this view “conceive of citizenship in economic terms, so that citizens are transformed into autonomous consumers, looking for the party or position that most persuasively promises to strengthen their market position. They need the state, but have no moral relation to it, and they control its officials only as consumers control the producers of commodities, by buying or not buying what they make” (Walzer 1995, 160).