So it annoy me a bit when Max's choice of aligning herself with the British colonizer is taken as motivated by pure self-interest and desire to be in the "privileged" room, because while there are shades of it, for sure, this analysis doesn't take into account the more in-depht reason for which Max would make this choice or value such things as ambitions over others.
The reason, deep down, is fear.
Fear of being powerless, fear of what will happen to her will she align herself with a side that might lose, fear of not having anymore the means or status to protect herself.
If you think about it, Max was victimized by BOTH the brutality of the system (she was born inside it! She was born in slavery and as a result of rape!) ANd by people who were opposed to this system, living outside of it, and are now fighting against it. Lots of the pirates, for all their talk of freedom against the British Empire, proved to Max to not being different than the men in it, by choosing to rape and mistreat her when she was powerless, and none of these people (except Anne and arguably Eleanor when in Max’s hearth was too late) who are now fighting for freedom did anything to save or rescue or protect her when she needed it!
She has clear in mind that she have to protect herself (and the woman she loves, because she wasn't protected enough by who was supposed to love her and she is trying, and sometimes failing, to not make the same mistake) and that the only way to do so is to have enough power and money to not be in a situation where she is powerless to stop her victimization again.
She isn't aligning herself with Rogers and the power because she is blind to the cruelty and brutality of British civilization; she is doing so because she knows exactly what the risks are and how to avoid them by being part of it and by using her gold and the status she has gained. She doesn't trust those men in power at all, she trust herself to move between them and theirs rules in a way that will not get herself crushed and destroyed.
She doesn't trust any pirate to protect her from those things she fear could happen if she will ally herself with them (openly or not) and they will lose!
Also, all the pirate leaders Max knows are white men (remember- she doesn't personally know Madi or even the existence of the Maroon Queen, or any other black woman in a position of leadership and authority rather than herself) and she knows she will risk more than them if she will align herself with them and they'll lose. It is not a justification from a moral point of view for aligning oneself with an oppressive power, maybe, and working for it, but still- Max knows that what Flint or Jack or Vane or Silver will risk is dying in battles or being hanged, but they won't risk being sold (back) in slavery or living with fear of being raped. Again.
Some of those pirates didn't even help her when she was being raped by THEIR OWN men, theirs own brothers, and no pirate except Anne even cared. So why Max should believe they have her best interest at hearth? Why, in her mind, from her prespective, should she not do anything to guarantue her own safety, because she knows no one else will do?
Is it such a wonder, given what happen in the first season, that Max only trusts herself, and that she thinks gold, money and status would be the only things that can protect her, and that she will align herself with who she thinks is most likely to win and have the power to either strip her off or let her keep those things?
I am not saying it is not a selfish choice, but it is a type of selfishness dictated by a depth fear of becoming powerless again, rather than just pure ambition or desire of comforming and hunger for power for the sake of it.
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