Marxism Texts - Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (1954)

If you like The Hunger Games, then here's a Nobel Prize winner doing it in black and white.

In this novel, we've got a bunch of British schoolboys marooned on an island. What could possibly go wrong? Well, being marooned on an island has way of stripping all that ideology away, and once that happens, things pretty much turn into a fight to the death. The point? Civilization is only skin-deep. Marx would have loved it.

What role does the division of labor play here? Who hunts, who cooks, who tends the fire? Do the boys need to fight? Is there a lack of space or food? Are there any other reasons for conflict?