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So identity as the individual reflection-in-itself is only possible as the communicative reflectioninto-another. This communicative negation is negated in situations, where the communicative process is sublated, either by a rupture that causes the social relationship’s breakdown (e.g. a quarrel between friends that ends the relationship, death, etc.) or the emergence of a positive new quality (e.g. an occasional acquaintance turns into a friendship). Such a sublation in a social relation is a communicative reflection-in-and-for-itself. It however does not stop, but only exists in and through further communication between humans so that the sublation of a social relation to a new quality in an absolute recoil goes back to the start and is posited as a new dialectic of the communicative reflection-in-itself and the reflection-into-another, etc. The result of communication in an absolute recoil becomes the starting point for further communication. Communication posits its own presuppositions so that the communicative social relation between humans develops in and through communication.\n\nThe dialectic is not a teleological process because humans make their own history based on the conditions they are posited in and that they posit. The only teleology in society is that humans have the capacity to set their own goals, which is conditioned, i.e. enabled and constrained, by the sum total of the social relations they are part of. In modern society, these conditioning relations are class and power relations. The Internet in capitalism is an antagonistic dialectical system, in which the individual, property, capital, the commodity, and the market are reflected into the social, the commons, labour, the gift, and the community that in a recoil reflect themselves into their others so that there is an antagonistic recoil of mutual positing of opposites. The resulting antagonisms constitute the Internet’s actuality, development, and potentiality that face power asymmetries. Given these asymmetries, only politics of radical reformism can make a socialist sublation more likely. The common and the capitalist Internet are both realities with asymmetric powers that are contained in each other as the capitalism of the commons-based Internet and the commonism of the capitalist Internet.\n\n4.3.7. Six Dialectics\n\nMarcuse understood Hegelian dialectics as a) the dialectic of the subject and the object, b) the dialectic of the individual and society, c) the dialectic of the subjective and the objective dialectic of capitalism, d) the dialectic of chance and necessity, e) the dialectic of essence and appearance, f) the dialectic of essence and existence. These dialectics can also be found in the realm of contemporary social media.\n\nHerbert Marcuse and Social Media\n\n121","previous_page":120,"next_page":122}