In “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics” (written in 1932), theologian and ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr addresses the concept of national and class privilege, including the inability of privileged classes to recognize their privilege, the hypocrisies they employ to defend them, and their angry, even violent, reactions when underprivileged classes challenge them. His exploration of these concepts is aimed at explaining why social justice is so hard to achieve. 🧵/1