Your point well taken by me. Of course I do not excuse him for those views. I just have some first hand accounts of the desperate misery of the London poor. My own people came to the East-End of London in 1844. They were not native Irish, but came from County Cork.
It is hard for even a rational human being to think straight in some conditions. Today many people would just do desperate things to survive under those conditions.
(Excuse the sermon .....chuckle)
Well, I do have to congratulate the workers for being straighter thinkers than Marx, who was a spoiled brat from three universities (got his doctorate from Universitat Jena with a thesis on Greek philosophy) and still never held any kind of decent office.