Victoria Woodhull and Karl Marx

In 1871, the American journalist, spiritualist, socialist and suffragette Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) joined the New York “Section 12” of the International Workingmen’s Association. Among her main topics were women’s right to vote and social reform, but also women’s sexual freedom. Karl Marx sharply opposed her positions, as Dr Antje Schrupp explains in her blog to the exhibition “Karl Marx and Capitalism”.