You ever listen to people debate discrimination to the effect that we can’t refuse a sale to Nazi Germany if we can’t deny black people service (for no reason)? Because “principles”. There’s a disease called idealism, particularly of the more bourgeoisie kind, and they have it. You take made-up principles to the nth level instead of using discretion (if not materialism/empiricism) and end up standing up for racism. “Free association” becomes “I will stand up for racism and the white supremacy of your private colonial fiefdom.” That’s dialectics - you go too far it becomes it’s opposite.
Dubious to begin with - no one suggests obvious harmful criminals should associate, but apparently it’s one too far to suggests the somehow less obvious KKK not associate. And I don’t oppose association - I want worker’s democracy. Stand up for proletarian rights and association - not racist private interest.
Private interest usually opposes proletarian association, such as unions, and in Brazil often won’t work with worker-managed factories out of principle (until it is too large). They subvert democracy for money, oppose a minimum wage raise, support wars and attack minorities (Chick fil a). So why do you support one over another, especially for you who the plantation owners are not your class? Remember, the USSR subverted worker’s democracy too, it is not the same thing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnEAH5wCzo
