i dont think we can find our liberation in the state and that a lot of discourse around rights and equal participation in society arise from the issue of people refusing to let go of their state mandated identity - they want the state to officially and legally recognise the nuances of their particular identity and when the state doesn't they feel, in some senses, less legitimate.
it relies on this assumption that the nation state is able to incorporate the vast differences in communities, beliefs, culture etc that have always existed among people's, an assumption incompatible with the nation state as an homogenising force.
to be incorporated into the nation state your identity and everything that defines it (culture, belief, language etc) must be translated into something that the state understands, and when the state does this it reinterprets you so that you can exist within its official and legal boundaries and borders, and in the process further homogenises its physical and legal jurisdiction; increasing its power over life and furthering its influences over what people can and cannot imagine what their life and the world could be.
