There is an infallible way of identifying the political leanings of writers who deal with this subject in literature. The technique is very simple, and boils down to checking the treatment given to “bad” characters. On the one hand, we have a trend that creates them as always ambiguous, always complex, never entirely evil; on the other hand, we have the trend that can only paint them as stereotypes, as representing absolute evil, devoid of any virtue. The first thing to note here is the radical difference in the results: in the first case, we generally have interesting, realistic and thought-provoking works; in the second, they are practically unreadable crap, stupid even for the supporters of shameless ideology, which is not ashamed to ruin the literary endeavor. The technique, therefore, shows less the degree of political passion than the stance derived from it: the first group humanizes and seeks to understand the opponent; the second only thinks of destroying him. Nothing more needs to be said; anyone can identify them.