 Third, future (communist) societies are said to embody differentiated unity. In this stage, desirable versions of community and individuality flourish together. Indeed, in their new forms, communal and individual identities and communal and individual interests presuppose and reinforce each other. It is sometimes said that the contents of the first two stages (community and individuality, respectively) have thereby been ‘sublated’—that is, elevated, cancelled, and preserved—in this third stage. ‘Sublated’ is an attempted English translation of the German verb ‘aufheben’and its cognates, which Hegel occasionally uses to suggest this elusive combination of ideas (e.g. Hegel 1991b: §24A3, §81A1).