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I've always been bothered by the "not human" rhetoric because he's literally describing a uniquely human behavior. No other animal engages in mass slaughter on behalf of international finance.
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.