On 30 April 1995, the State ceded control of the Internet to capital.

On that day, the National Science Foundation decommissioned NSFnet, the state-funded Internet backbone, and the State stopped using "deductions from the social revenue" to pay for the production of the "general conditions" of the internetworked "processes of social production" (Marx, Grundrisse ch10.htm).

On that selfsame day, capital took real economic control over the Internet, concourse through the Internet, congress within the Internet.

Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff once wrote that Marxism is "sustained by its dialectical opposite, its capitalist other, whose contradictions and crises have always both threatened and invigorated Marxist theory and Marxist organization" (123).

Writing shortly after the fall of the U.S.S.R.,  Resnick and Wolff argued that the collapse of Soviet state capitalism did nothing to change the fact that "the current spurt of capitalist development will, like all previous spurts, sooner or later entail the parallel revival of its other — Marxism" (119).