Spaniards, Italians, Americans, English, Blacks, native S. Americans, and Jews. Consider the peculiar forms that egoism sometimes takes. Think of Nostromo, Decoud, and Gould. All are egotists in different ways. Nostromo is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy told from a profoundly ironic perspective.
Every character is treated with irony, so there are no real heroes.
Even Stevie is a secret agent if we employ the word agent in its chemical sense. Protecting Stevie is the chief motivation of both Winnie and her mother. And his death leads to the exposure of Vladimir and Heat, the deaths of Verloc and Winnie, and the dissolution of Ossipon. The political is the personal and the personal is the political. The anarchists can pursue their political ends only because of their abilities to maintain personal relationships with the women who support them.