For anyone attending the Tax Day Tea Parties on April 15th, or any other political protests in the future, and hoping to make a case for the moral foundations of capitalism, here are some excellent essays to help fine-tune your arguments and prepare you for counterarguments.

First up are selected essays that we have compiled into a booklet called The Portable Objectivist, which we will be handing out at the tax day event. If you plan to do the same, make sure to get permission from the publishers first. I have reproduced the booklet online, with links to the original articles, under the “Resources” tab. The most important pieces are highlighted in bold.

Next up is an essay by Harry Binswanger from 1983, titled “The Dollar and the Gun“. This points out several counterarguments you should expect to encounter, all of which commit the fallacy of equivocation - “the equivocation between economic power and political power.” [emphasis mine]

Lastly is this bit of history by author Ed Cline on the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party. If you are not already a member of the OActivists list, please join!