Yeah, well at least big man defended Rome against the Volscians. Plebeians sure wouldn't. All those bums cared about was filling their bellies. And they weren't the proles. They were new landowners without the discipline of the patricians, whose grandfathers had overthrown Tarquin when he raped Lucrece and created the Roman bigod Republic. The plebeians were the ones who ground down the common people but who didn't want to pay taxes or fight for Rome, and their descendants ultimately destroyed Rome...because "Rome" turned into me me me.
This is why Coriolanus is a tragedy. He was a good man who had the rug pulled out from him, for the "Rome" he defended was old Rome, with everyone pulling together, sons loyal to fathers, women honored and doing their duty. Brutus (not Shakespeare's Brutus, rather an ancestor) sacrificing his sons rather than betray Rome.
And before we condemn these people we need to spend time in a world lit only by fire and menaced by beasts and Volscians.