“The ideas of System Justification Theory (SJT) attempt to confront the paradox of the exploited justifying their own exploitation. Introduced by John T. Jost and Mahzarin R. Banaji, SJT suggests that people have a fundamental psychological need to see the society they live in as essentially legitimate and just…
Anti-authoritarians should focus on the strategy of targeting the apparent psychological need to justify the system by creating and holding out new ways to meet people’s epistemic, existential, and relational needs.”
https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/19/why-the-exploited-justify-their-exploitation/
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