Editing Victoria Woodhull (section)

=== First International ===
Woodhull joined the International Workingmen's Association, also known as the [[First International]]. She supported its goals by articles in her newspaper. In the United States, many Yankee radicals, former [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]] and other progressive activists, became involved in the organization, which had been founded in England. German-American and ethnic Irish nearly lost control of the organization, and feared its goals were going to be lost in the broad-based, democratic egalitarianism promoted by the Americans. In 1871, the Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First International's U.S. sections, leading to the quick decline of the organization, as it failed to attract the ethnic working class in America.<ref name="Messer-Kruse p470">{{cite book|title=The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848–1876 |first=Timothy |last=Messer-Kruse |year=1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KL3eYgNEchoC |pages=2–4|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-4705-3 }}</ref> Karl Marx commented disparagingly on Woodhull in 1872, and expressed approval of the expulsions.<ref>{{cite web |last=Marx |first=Carl |date= May 28, 1872 |title=Notes on the "American split" |website=Marx-Engels Archive |url=http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/09/splits.htm |access-date=August 5, 2010 }}</ref>

Recent scholarship has shown Woodhull to have been a far more significant presence in the socialist movement than previous historians had allowed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Neil A. |title=Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States |date=2002 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=128}}</ref>{{sfn|Frisken|2012|p=13}} Woodhull thought of herself as a revolutionary and her conception of social and political reorganization was, like Marx, based upon economics. In an article titled "Woman Suffrage in the United States" in 1896, she concluded that "suffrage is only one phase of the larger question of women's emancipation. More important is the question of her social and economic position. Her financial independence underlies all the rest."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stokes |first1=John |title=Eleanor Marx (1855–1898): Life, Work, Contacts |date=2000 |publisher=Ashgate |pages=158–170}}</ref> Ellen Carol DuBois refers to her as a "socialist feminist."<ref>{{cite book |last1=DuBois |first1=Ellen Carol |title=Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights |date=1998 |publisher=NYU Press |page=256}}</ref>