In Communism, however, a trace of the messianic aspect remains, even if it is confined more and more to the background. This trace is what is erased by Western libertarianism, which in this way is able to create the most complete vacuum of any dependence on the values of the past. What is left, if not a human being disconnected from the past and without hope for the future, deprived of a community based on values, so that we can speak, as a general form, of an individual without a person?