Of course, he’s not the mouth of god. He’s a man who’s been broken by the violence he’s seen, what he’s had to endure and what he’s forced himself to endure.
Yeah. Iosif is not a good person, but he’s definitely made out to by sympathetic, especially to us. Categorizing capital as some giant monster leashed by a handful of individuals is simply a way to cope with the fact that other human beings carried out unspeakable cruelty on him and everyone he’d ever known for the crime of making the world a better place.