This is a reconstruction of the course of evolution of Marx’s and Engels’s ideas on women’s emancipation by Maximilien Rubel (1905-1996). Rubel drafted this article shortly before his death in 1996. This is a chronological narrative. It has not received the notice that it richly deserves since its publication in French in 1997 and that of its English translation in 2003. In the present transcription of this text I have added some endnotes, mostly to indicate the location of some of the texts. I have also added some information already known in Rubel’s time but not used by him and some new information that has come to light after his death. Towards the end I have indicated the grounds for my own rejection of Rubel’s charges against some of the practical organizational steps endorsed by Marx and Engels, in respect Victoria Woodhull [1838-1927], a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and of the International Workingmen’s Association in the USA and, her attempts at transforming some of the American sections of the International Workingmen’s Association, into a platform for her campaign to become the President of the United States of America, in 1872.
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