Multinational capital objects to sovereign states for the same reasons Said rejects coercive identities

Evidence

It is as well to remember, however, that multinational capital registers exactly the same objection against sovereign states of Asia and Africa: they have their governments, customs duties, borders, and so forth, so that free movement of capital and commodities is impeded. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 912

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Ahmad’s most pointed maneuver: aligning the cosmopolitan-critic’s impatience with ‘coercive’ state identities with capital’s own hostility to borders — the discourse of freedom from identity is structurally identical to capital’s discourse of free movement.
• XREF: Uncanny resonance with strategic essentialism’s bind: those who critique essentialism from a position of privilege/mobility repeat capital’s own anti-border logic. — connects to: Said rejects nation and state as coercive yet affirms national liberation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 842