5th Plank Of Communism

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Current example in the US:
“The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a "national bank" and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States.” This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.