"One reason we're disgruntled with the current left is its abandonment of peace" -- anyone who advocates corporate violence is not "the left" by any standards I've ever used. But I guess if you take the Soviet Union as a model for the left, ok. That would be fair, maybe, but to me the Soviet Union was a variant on authoritarianism, sometimes loosely called fascism. No one I have ever spoken to has tried to seriously support anything the Soviet Union ever did.