Woke activists frequently demand (more) justice. Whether language, climate, economy, society, or politics—everything is to become fairer. There is nothing wrong with this in itself, as long as the sought-after justice is also a goal that people should strive for.
In the woke conception, the correct understanding of justice presupposes sufficient critical consciousness to even recognise oppression (see Critical Theory). From a woke perspective, group rights must take precedence over all individual rights in order to realise the utopia of so-called “social justice” (see Equality and Equity).178
Woke activists reject striving for individual autonomy. Autonomous ideals require that people make decisions themselves and determine their own fate. This focus on individual self-responsibility is viewed by woke activists as a mechanism with which the powerful obscure the effects of systemic power structures: through liberal, individualistic norms, people are to be led to believe that they have more freedom than societal structures actually grant them (see Conflict). Dominant narratives about self-responsibility, equal rights, self-determination, individualism, performance, independence, and freedom allegedly normalise the existing structures of oppression and inequality (see Forms of Knowledge).179
Instead, woke activists demand a solidaristic system in which no one is autonomous any longer, so that all systemic power structures can be abolished (see Progress and Utopia).180 As a rule, demands for (social, gender, climate, equity, racial, etc.) justice result in new forms of regulation with which woke experts want to control society.