Charles Bettelheim was a French Marxian economist and historian who founded the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He served as an economic adviser to several developing country governments during the period of decolonization and was considered one of the most visible Marxist thinkers in the capitalist world, influential in France's New Left as well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America and India. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Charles Bettelheim (20 November 1913-20 July 2006) was a French Marxian 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 EHESS, economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization.
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This position also includes a sharp criticism of the international role of the Soviet Union whose politics of development Bettelheim saw as just another variant of capitalist accumulation models.
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