Komfut
Komfut or Kom-Fut was a short lived attempt to create a futurist group affiliated within the Vyborg branch of the Russian Communist Party in January 1919.
The preliminary discussions out of which Komfut arose took place in December 1918. On 1 December Vladimir Mayakovsky and Osip Brik attended a meeting at the Viborg District Party School, where they criticised Proletkult and instead argued that only futurism sufficiently grasped both proletarian and revolutionary values. Futurist books were distributed and at a second meeting on 7 December. Mayakovsky read some poetry and was well received by the audience. He was followed by a worker called Alexander Mushtakov who was an ardent supporter of Futurism. Iskusstvo kommuny had just been launched by Izo-Narkompros, the visual arts department of the new People's Commissariat for Enlightenment. In issue 3 Mayakovsky's poem Poet rabocij appeared.
It was set up at two meetings of the Viborg District of RKP on January 13 and 19. Boris Kušner was elected chair.
Although short-lived, the term Komfuter persisted as a term used for Futurists who esposed communist politics, whether or not they were members of the Communist Party.
