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Podcast: Anti-Imperialist Network Podcast
Episode: Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism Chapter 3
Description: Originally published by our friends at Negation Liberation Front here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZajc6Y0TRxpdOvjcIqRKbyaUVPl38zNL&si=7KkCkakl_AsBFJHG
anti-imperialist(dot)net/2019/11/13/unequal-exchange-and-the-prospects-of-socialism/In November 1969, Le Monde, France’s leading newspaper, published an exchange between Arghiri Emmanuel and Charles Bettelheim, in which the two Marxian economists debated the possibility of international solidarity between the working classes of the imperialist countries and those of the semi- or neo-colonies. Emmanuel held deep reservations about such alliances, while Bettelheim maintained that they were both feasible and necessary. In the decades since, Bettelheim’s po...