Original sentence: In part these disagreements concerned questions that went beyond arguements around Lenins slogan of Revolutionary Defeatism and touched on questions of whether a New International of Socialist parties had to be constructed and the fate of Europe following thewar.In this conflict Trotsky stood outside the two major factions and acted alone or as a member of small groups.It was Lenins position that such a slogan could only signify the unity of capitalist Europe over the colonial peoples of the world.This led to a number of bitter polemics between him and Lenin, as had happened when he originally joined the Menshevik faction in 1903.While lenin sought to rally a hard left at the anti-war socialist conferences convened in Zimmerwald anf Kienthal Trotsky was to be found on the left of what Lenin described as the centrist wing at these conferences
Edited sentence: According to the ICFI, this is exactly what happened in the form of Glasnost and Perestroika.In part these disagreements concerned questions that went beyond arguements around lenins slogan of Revolutionary defeatism and touched on questions of whether a New International of Socialist parties had to be constructed and the fate of Europe following thewar.In this conflict trotsky stood outside the two major factions and acted alone or as a member of small groups.It was Lenins position that such a slogan coukld only signify the unity of capitalist Europe over the colonial peoples of the world.Stalin did this to show that he was not a threat to capitalist rule and so hoped to avoid an invasion of the imperialist powers, as happened after the 1917 revolution.This led to a number of bitter poemics between him and Lenin, as had ahappened when he originally joined the Menshevik faction in 1903.Trotskyists are mostly ignored by historians and politicians except when they faced police repression and slander.While lenin sought to rally a hard left at the anti-war socialist conferences convened in Zimmerwald anf Kiethal trotsky was to be found on the eft of what Lenin described as the centrist wing at these conferences