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Dick Martin Collection

Biographical History

Dick Martin is a social anarchist active British Columbia who has co-edited two occasional anarchist-pacifist publications—Any Time Now (with Larry Gambone) and Ahimsazine. He co-organized the Kootenay Anarchists of BC, a group of “active agitators for social change in the communities in and around the Kootenay Lake region of BC” seeking “to build the elements of a free society that are autonomous from governing authority.”

Scope and Content

Items in this collection were published in India in the 1970s and 1980s. The author, Swami Nirmalananda (1863–1938), was an Indian anarchist who had an impact on the Gandhian-anarchist “satyagraha” movement.

Swami Nirmalananda

  1. Swami Nirmalananda, To Live to Benefit Mankind (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, 1982).
  2. Swami Nirmalananda, The Kingdom of Happiness (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, 1974).
  3. Swami Nirmalananda, Zen A Way of Life (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, 1988).
  4. Chris Walker, Conversation with Swami Nirmalananda (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, no date).
  5. Swami Nirmalananda, Music and Poetry in Life (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, 1989).
  6. Swami Nirmalananda, Enlightened Anarchism, with insert (Bangalore, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, no date).
  7. K.S. Ramakrishna Rao, Swami Nirmalananda: A life in Quest for Truth (Mysore, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, 1989).
  8. Swami Nirmalananda, Poetical Religion (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, no date).
  9. Swami Nirmalananda, Our Rishis: The Lighthouse of Humanity, with insert (Karnataka, India: Viswa Shanti Nikethana, no date).

      Other Anarchist Pacifist Pamphlets Acquired from Dick Martin

      1. Leo Tolstoy, The Slavery of Our Times (England, 1972): this is Tolstoy’s key anarchist-pacifist statement, published the year before his death.
      2. Geoffery Osergaard, Resisting the Nation State: The Pacifist and Anarchist Traditions (London: Peace Pledge Union, 1991).
      3. Derrick A. Pike, Anarcho-Pacifism Question & Answers (Northover, Glastonbury, UK: Walton Press, 1991).
      4. Ronald Sampson, The Anarchist Basis of Pacifism (London: Peace Pledge Union, no date).

      Journals

      1. Ahimsazine #6 (Winter 2001).
      2. Ahimsazine #7 (Fall 2009).
      3. Any Time Now #24 (Summer 2006).
      4. Any Time Now #25 (Autumn 2006).