1. Charles Bettelheim was a French Marxian economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization at the EHESS, economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization.
Charles Bettelheim was very influential in France's New Left, and considered one of "the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world", in France as well as in Spain, Italy, Latin America, and India.
Henri Bettelheim, the father of Charles Bettelheim, was a Viennese Austrian of Jewish origin, and a representative of a Swiss bank in Paris.
In 1922, Charles Bettelheim returned to Paris with his French mother, during which time his father, who was living in Egypt, committed suicide.
Charles Bettelheim was excluded from the Communist Party for his "slanderous" remarks.
Charles Bettelheim helped the Union of Young Communists with theoretical planning, without being directly affiliated with the organization.
Charles Bettelheim was impressed by the implementation of the Angang Constitution in the factories he visited and the high levels of political consciousness among workers and cadre.
Charles Bettelheim has written a book of memoirs which has remained unfinished.
Charles Bettelheim did not publish anything in his later years.
For Charles Bettelheim, socialism is rather an alternative voice in development; a process of transformation of social understandings.
In China, Charles Bettelheim had the impression that he was in the process of witnessing just such a process of transformation.
Charles Bettelheim was a leading proponent of the thesis that "development" in the countries of the "Third World" necessitates a political break with imperialism and a distantanglement from the bonds of dependency on the unequal international division of labor of the world market.