head. A central bank is point #5 of Karl Marx’s “10 Conditions for Transition to Communism”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto#10_Conditions_For_Transition_To_Communism Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State , by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. That, along with the “heavy progressive or graduated income tax”, are