Given historical materialism, in the end, is rooted in the contradiction between personal appropriation and the social production of surplus-value.
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Lord of the Flies is pessimistic about human nature being permanently equal to good and evil.
In tragedy, suffering does not presently honor as a goal to be pursued by humans or as an embodiment of the project.
Such refusal completes the narrative level of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment with a refusal to work.
Truman Capote provides In Cold Blood as a book with such method of double reciprocal convergence.