Blake's Baby

So whom are the main theorists of left communism?
Or is it eclectic?

Luxemburg opposed self determination too. What's the position on that? I agree with her for the Russian question.

Just thought I'd send you a friend request as you've been so nice to me.
Nice...such an overused word that it's lost all meaning and can be used to describe anything positive.
Been so kind to me works better.

I got into the state and revolution, but never finished it. It was in a horrible small print and I got it from the library. It was printed in the M-E-L institute in the USSR, and was falling apart. What parts of Lenin do you criticise?
I criticise the whole Kronstadt affair, and the NEP. I thought it went too far in allowing people to employ others.
If anyone blindly follows communist X, then they aren't really communist, are they?

Also, what of lenin's theories apply?

I'm liking this left communism. What are some good books to start off with?
The party would be a nucleus of dedicated revolutionaries with a large fringe of sympathisers then?

Generally we'd see the party as being a necessary tool that the working class creates; but it will be a party of militants, not a mass party. The working class produces militant minorities ('the vanguard') who are nothing more than those who (in Marx's phrase) have the clearest understanding of the line of march.

I wouldn't worry about being 'rash' if I were you. If you can't be rash when you're young, when can you? Mass party plus state-cap analysis is not some kind of heresy - it's just unusual. Generally, 'mass' parties are opposed to state-cap analysis, because most mass parties (such as most Trotskyist organisations) think that state capitalism is actually some kind of gain for the working class.

What is the left communist conception of a party? I'm still developing my politics as I'm young, and don't want to do something rash.

And for politics, it's rather odd.
I am communist, and am currently reading more Marx and Engels as I didn't fully understand it when I skimmed through some books about two years ago. I'm critically supportive of Lenin, but Leninism I see as leading nowhere, as they all appear to be stuck in the 40s.
I see the USSR as state capitalist, with a red bourgeoisie living off the workers- not the best description, but I'm tired and slightly ill.
Anything else you want to know?

Why is it an odd combination? And what are you doing up so late?