Centralisation of power in every way is no way a progression. Never was and never will be. Centralisation would be managable only ....and only if the central power would know what is doing. They would know all the details about every little town. They would fund them depending on the programme. Imagine that. And that is just...impossible. Centralization was always leading to bigger unrest and war. Don't worry, US is in totalitarian state. EU may be slowly going in that direction too. If you want to talk about capitalism....what we have now is Neoliberal-Oligarchic fascism. Books do not mean a thing. There was a book that said Adolf Hilter died in 1945 in Germany instead of 1962 in Argentina.....