"Karl Marx famously said, 'If anything is certain it is that I am not a Marxist.' Nowhere was that more evident than in the Marx family home in London. There, Marx presided over a court of five devoted women whose shared goal in life (nearly their sole goal in life) was to enable him to do what he set out to do—change the world. If Marx had been a king, he could not have had more loyal courtesans. If he had been a religious figure, he could not have had more fervent followers."

Read more: Mary Gabriel, Daily Beast