{{Short description|Attempt to create communist-affiliated futurist group in January 1919}} '''Komfut''' or '''Kom-Fut''' ({{langx|ru|КомФут}}) was a short lived attempt to create a futurist group affiliated within the Vyborg branch of the Russian Communist Party (RKP(b)) in January 1919.<ref name="Leach">{{cite book |last1=Leach |first1=Robert |title=Russian Futurist Theatre: Theory and Practice |date=2018 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9781474436700 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0n18DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Kom-fut%22&pg=PT71 |language=en}}</ref>
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 Vyborg 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 Aleksandr Mushtakov who was an ardent supporter of Futurism. ''Iskusstvo kommuny'' (Art of the Commune) had just been launched by Izo-Narkompros, the visual arts department of the new People's Commissariat for Enlightenment. In issue 3 (22 December 1918) Mayakovsky's poem ''Poet Worker'' appeared.
It was set up at two meetings of the Vyborg District of RKP(b) on January 13 and 19.<ref name="Jangfeldt">{{cite book |last1=Jangfeldt |first1=Bengt |title=Majakovskij and Futurism 1917-21 |date=1976 |publisher=Almqvist & Wiksell International |location=Stockholm |url=https://monoskop.org/images/e/e0/Jangfeldt_Bengt_Majakovskij_and_Futurism_1917-1921.pdf |accessdate=23 December 2018}}</ref> Boris Kushner was elected chair.
Although short-lived, the term "komfuter" persisted as a term used for Futurists who espoused communist politics, whether or not they were members of the Communist Party.<ref name="Jangfeldt"/>{{rp|102-2}}
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Category:Russian Futurism