In the Cuban debate of 1963, Bettelheim was opposed to the voluntarist ideas of Che Guevara, who wanted to abolish free market and the production of merchandise through a very rapid and centralized industrialization, morally mobilizing "the new man."
在 1963 年的古巴辩论，贝特兰反对切·格瓦拉的唯意志论的想法，他想通过快速和集中的工业化、道德动员“新人”，来废除自由市场和商品生产。