[lbo-talk] Platypus Interview with Moishe Postone

[John Thornton]

Not as bad as São Paolo or Rio.
Mubai and Nairobi are much worse still along with many others.
Mexico City certainly has a huge problem that they don't seem willing to 
tackle but it's an exaggeration to claim 90% of the cities residents are 
in slums.
I believe Mexico City's slums are the world's largest but as a 
percentage of the metropole overall population it doesn't rank in the 
top 25.
Nairobi has ~60% of it's population in slums, Mubai ~70% and Addis Ababa 
~80% but Mexico City is ~20%.

John Thornton

Chris Doss wrote:
> Is Mexico City really that bad?
>
>
> --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  The problems that
>   
>> we face with the capitalist diminution of proletariat
>> labor on a worldwide scale go hand in hand with the
>> increase of gigantic slum cities, e.g., São Paolo,
>> Mexico City, Lagos. Cities of twenty million people in
>> which eighteen million are slum dwellers, that is,
>> people who have no chance of being sucked up into a
>> burgeoning industrial apparatus.