Komfut or Kom-Fut () was a short lived attempt to create a

futurist Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futures studies or futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities ...

group affiliated within the

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branch of the

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(RKP(b)) in January 1919. The preliminary discussions out of which Komfut arose took place in December 1918. On 1 December

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and

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attended a meeting at the Vyborg District Party School, where they criticised

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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

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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.

Boris Kušner Boris Anisimovich Kushner (Russian: Борис Анисимович Кушнер; 1888–1937) was a Russian poet, critic and political activist. He was a publicist for the Cubo-Futurists Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists ...

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.

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