Is There a Relationship Between Individualism and Political Wholism?

There's a relationship between sociological individualism, the image that all there is in the world are individuals, and political wholism. When you've made that move that smith and montescue warned about, imaginatively abolishing the groupishness of people then you think the only way we could act together at all. The urge to have the moral authority of wholeness combined with the real particularity of really only being your side - that's what populasiom is like.