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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

A not coherent sentence

Failure of the Second International

While the differences had been evident for decades, World War I proved the issue that finally divided the revolutionary and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformism wings of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_movement. The socialist movement had been historically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimilitarist and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_internationalism, and therefore opposed workers serving as "cannon fodder" for the "bourgeois" governments at war. This especially since the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripleAlliance(1882) comprised two empires, while the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Entente gathered France and Britain into an alliance with Russia. Karl Marx's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto had stated that "the working class has no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism" and exclaimed "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_of_the_world,_unite!" Massive majorities voted in favor of resolutions for the Second International to call upon the international working class to resist war if it was declared.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_International#cite_note-2

I don't think the underlined sentence is coherent.
And, I think "World War I proved the differences through the true through finally divided~" is more coherent.
How about you?
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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You're right. It's likely that "proved" here means "was shown" or "turned out." I think it should read, "World War I proved to be the issue that finally divided the revolutionary and reformist wings of the workers' movement."
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Thank you, deadrat, for your yet another kind answer. Emotion: smile
I'd like to know if you think World War 1 was the cause of the issue.
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Use the Roman numerals for World Wars I and II.

The issue of World War I (i.e., the matter of workers' joining the war effort) was the cause of the division between the two wings. Here, World War I can be said to be the issue. The sentence doesn't say who identified the war as the issue, but it's clearly historians. Who else has that job?

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