RedJacobin
22nd July 2006, 05:29
According to a post on the Marxism Mailing List, Charles Bettelheim died yesterday.
Originally posted by Wikipedia
Charles Bettelheim (born November 20, 1913 - July 20, 2006) was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI : "Centre pour l'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation") at the Sorbonne, economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization. He was very influential in France's New Left, and considered one of "the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world." (Le Monde, April 4, 1972), in France as well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America, and India.
Full: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bettelheim
I just started reading his "Class Struggles in the USSR" recently.
It's a two-volume history of the Soviet Union, where he also deals with theoretical issues, like rejecting the identification of legal ownership with class relations, bringing out the continuation of class struggles under socialism, and criticizing the economic and technological determinism of some schools of Marxism (which in his view affected trends as diverse--or maybe not as diverse--as those represented by Stalin, Trotsky, and the 2nd International).
His thinking was inspired to a large degree by the Cultural Revolution in China.
Originally posted by Wikipedia
Charles Bettelheim (born November 20, 1913 - July 20, 2006) was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI : "Centre pour l'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation") at the Sorbonne, economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization. He was very influential in France's New Left, and considered one of "the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world." (Le Monde, April 4, 1972), in France as well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America, and India.
Full: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bettelheim
I just started reading his "Class Struggles in the USSR" recently.
It's a two-volume history of the Soviet Union, where he also deals with theoretical issues, like rejecting the identification of legal ownership with class relations, bringing out the continuation of class struggles under socialism, and criticizing the economic and technological determinism of some schools of Marxism (which in his view affected trends as diverse--or maybe not as diverse--as those represented by Stalin, Trotsky, and the 2nd International).
His thinking was inspired to a large degree by the Cultural Revolution in China.