Teaching Career
Martin was a close associate of historian Harry Elmer Barnes. Martin's own views were libertarian and individualist anarchist. He was also an egoist influenced by Max Stirner, and rejected the natural rights views held by some other libertarians. His work was praised by New Left historian William Appleman Williams, libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard, and others.
After a teaching career at Northern Illinois University, San Francisco State College, and Deep Springs College, he took a job teaching at Robert LeFevre's Rampart College, assuming it would be a full-time job. This was not the case as Rampart College was not yet really a college but only a series of workshop/lectures on libertarian political economy. This led to an eventual falling out between Martin and LeFevre when Rampart College went out of business three years after Martin was hired, with Martin charging LeFevre with a breach of his five-year contract.
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