Afsay

An afsay (plural ifsayn) is an autonomous commune or syndicate that makes up society in Adanal and various polities influenced by Delarueism as practiced there. Ifsayn confederate from persons, or other ifsayn, according to constantly renegotiated and never institutionalized terms; they themselves are frequently founded, dissolved, and reconstituted according to the needs and demands of members. These confederations have no clear hierarchical levels, and all ifsayn have the potential of overlapping membership, as well as involving themselves in affairs of radically different scope. Besides these confederations, the projects ifsayn embark on are also outlined and gauged in ideological preambles to their founding documents known as tazwara. Ifsayn-dominated polities such as Adanal claim to be stateless societies, and even large important confederations that can represent them among other more organized entities consistently, such as the asdukkel, claim no absolute mandate and are frequently reconstituted.

In relevant Delarueist theory, ifsayn are conceptualized as Amable Roquentin's groups-in-fusion acting according only to the collective, conscious, and authentically responsible praxes decided upon by its members, abolishing themselves as soon as those immediate solidarities are no longer needed to avoid practico-inert institutionalism. The name 'afsay' means in several of Adanal's Esophic languages 'act of melting' and was originally a translation of Roquentin's concept of 'fusion', but ideologues of the Second Adanali Revolution embraced its literal, more destructive connotations and developed the model of communes in Adanal into a vision for the perpetual 'creative destruction' of society by man exercising and realizing his Delarueist existential freedom.

In cases where ifsayn make up the entirety of society such as Adanal, the most common kind of afsay is the work unit in which members live and work collectively, organized largely according to Larvorist syndicalism; in cities, residential and workplace ifsayn may be separated. These immediate, 'primary' communes confederate into at least one council that manages local government or some aspect thereof, and also participate in more discontiguous cooperatives through which commerce is conducted. However, they are not necessarily the most permanent, and besides self-disbandment are often reorganized by the councils they confederate, having usually consented to such. Councils that exercise regional governance shift, contest, and overlap jurisdictions constantly, putting governance in a state of flux. In Adanal, the only ifsayn not immediately concerned with production or negotiation (sometimes characterized as 'leisurely') are Servers that, besides generally expediting those processes, seem to enforce compliance with central agendas of some kind and act as a functionary bureaucracy.