Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.