Napoleon, with his citizen-armies, was the industrial revolution 
itself, as it reached areas long protected from it.

     The Roman army as a mobile, industrial wealth-making 
force created in addition a vast consumer public in the Roman 
towns. Division of labor always creates a separation between 
producer and consumer, even as it tends to separate the place 
of work and the living space. Before Roman literate 
bureaucracy, nothing comparable to the Roman consumer 
specialists had been seen in the world. This fact was 
institutionalized in the individual known as “parasite,” and in 
the social institution of the gladiatorial games. (Panem et  
circenses .) The private sponge and the collective sponge, both 
reaching out for their rations of sensation, achieved a horrible 
distinctness and clarity that matched the raw power of the 
predatory army machine.