/lit/ - Literature

So, basically, if we wanted to make an extreme summary, we could say that leftists believe that all the evil of today lies in (and derives from) the "structure" of the system, whereas rightists believe that someone in the flesh is guilty and consciously responsible for it.
(As a side note, it is interesting to notice that tables have turned over time: Marxists of the past blamed the greedy capitalist in the flesh, while conservatives were very critical of how the economic system in itself had taken a bad turn).
Now, we can be pretty sure that the truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle. It is not counterintuitive to think that a very harmful and perverse system has generated by itself, by necessity, at some point in history, and that someone who was smart enough and malicious took advantage from it and has consistently been doing so until today. Both parts present convincing arguments and have their reasons to believe in their respective theory.
What are the most serious and reliable books written in the present century, that best embody these two opposed conceptions?